 Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene...  The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison - Page 246by Joseph Addison - 1811Full view - About this book
 | George Holmes - Ireland - 1801 - 238 pages
...manner, answers the fine description given by Virgil, in his first ./Eneid, of a. beautiful port : — " Within a long recess, there lies a bay, An island...rolling sea, And forms a port, secure for ships to ride, -v • Broke by jutting land on either side, > In double streams the briny waters glide ^ Betwixt Betwixt... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...maintains. The weary Trojans ply their shatter'd oars To nearest land, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess there lies a bay: An island shades...rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride: 230 Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 pages
..._.-••.-•..>•{••>. , , ;, ' .,''!)( JO Within a long recess there lies a bay, ', , ,.ij \ J, a « -'j An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms...'"' . . Broke by the jetting land on either side, . - . '.• li-^c In double streams the briny waters glide, ,,;... .im'rt Between two rows of rocks... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...Trojans ply their shatter'd oars To nearest land, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess their lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea,' And forms a port secure for ships to ride : 230 Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt... | |
 | James Johnson - China - 1806 - 154 pages
...non viucula naves, " Ulla tenent : unco non alligat ancliura luorsu." JEneid. lib. I. " Within a deep recess there lies a bay, " An island shades it from the rolling sea, " Ami forms a port secure for ships to ride: " Broke by the jutting land on either side, " In double... | |
 | James Johnson - Voyages and travels - 1807 - 430 pages
...Tessas non vincnla naves, Ulla tcneut : unto noa alligat anchora morsu." lib. \. \ " Within a deep recess there lies a bay, ! An island shades it from...forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide Betwixt two rugged rocks : a... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 378 pages
...sha'.ter'd oars 225' To nearest land, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess there lies a hay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride: 230) Broke by the jutting land, on either side, > In double streams the briny waters glide j Betwixt... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...maintains. The weary Trojans ply their shattered oars To nearest land, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island...forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks :... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...nearest land, and make the Libyan shores. Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades if from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : ^ Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, 3 Betwixt two rows of rocks... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pages
...silent ; tum Silvis Scena coruscis Desuper, horrentique atrum nemus imminet umbra. JEn. iv 1(33., Withtn a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades...forms a port secure for ships to ride ; Broke by the jutting land on eithfr side, In double streams the briny waters glide Between two rows of rocks : a... | |
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