... from hence your parting course you steer, Within a strait Cyanea's rocks appear. Arduous the task through these your way to keep, Unstay'd, unrooted, wand'ring in the deep. Ofttimes they rush, with front to front opposed, And clashing dreadful, both... The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 117by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
| Apollonius (of Rhodes) - 1803 - 324 pages
...dreadful, both in one are clos'd. 450 "O'er tKeir broad back, roll'd high,with thund'ring sound,. " The breakers swell, the shores rebellow round, " Now,...with presumptuous force, " On death precipitate your fetal course.— " First, let a dove the dang'rous passage try.— " If, thro' the rock's, unhurt she... | |
| William Allen - Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) - 1855 - 440 pages
...front to front opposed, And clashing dreadful, both in one are closed. 3 First let a dove the dang'rous passage try; If through the rocks unhurt she chance to fly, ' And reach the sea beyond with prosp'rous flight, Then forward rush, — then ply your oars with might. 4 Crush'd in her midway flight,... | |
| William Allen - Middle East - 1855 - 816 pages
...front to front opposed, And clashing dreadful, both in one are closed. 3 First let a dove the dang'rous passage try; If through the rocks unhurt she chance to fly, ' And reach the sea beyond with prosp'rous flight, Then forward rush, — then ply your oars with might. * Crush'd in her midway flight,... | |
| William Allen - 1855 - 452 pages
...front to front opposed, And clashing dreadful, both in one are closed. First let a dove the dang'rous passage try; If through the rocks unhurt she chance to fly, ' And reach the sea beyond with prosp'rous flight, Then forward rush, — then ply your oars with might. 4 Crush'd in her midway flight,... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 888 pages
...Idyll, ira. v. 25. Phinena charges the Argonauts, when about to attempt a difficult navigation . — " First let a dove the dangerous passage try. If through...Then forward rush — then ply your oars with might." APOL. RHOD. Arg. 1. nv 328. " The mythologiste say that Deucalion sent forth a dove first out of the... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 726 pages
...Idyll, xin. v. 25. Phincua charges the Argonauts, when about to attempt a difficult navigation :— " First let a dove the dangerous passage try. If through...the sea beyond with prosperous flight, Then forward rush—then ply your oars with might." APOL. RHOD. Arg. 1. nv 328. " The mythologists say that Deucalion... | |
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