 He, like the warlike eagle speeds his pace, (Swiftest and strongest of the aerial race:) Far as a spear can fly Achilles springs At every bound ; his clanging armour rings ; Now here, now there, he turns on every side, And winds his course before the...  The Iliad of Homer - Page 205by Homer - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...their food, Then lay them down by limpid streams, abide, And slumber as the murm'ring waters glide. As when a peasant to his garden brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, AnH calls the floods from high to bless his bow'rs, And feed with pregnant streams the plants and flow'rs... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...before the following tide; The waves flow after, whereeoe'er he wheels, And gather fast, and murmt at his heels. So when a peasant to his garden brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, C>'! And calls the floods from high, to bless his bowers, And feed with pregnantstreams the plants... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...rings: Now here, now there, he turus on every side, 285 And winds his course hefore the following tide ; The waves flow after, wheresoe'er he wheels, And gather...murmur at his heels. So when a peasant to his garden hrings, Soft rills of water from the huhhling springs, 2flO And calls the floods from high, to hless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...rings : Now here, now there, he turns ou every side, And winds his course before the following tide ; The waves flow after, wheresoe'er he wheels» And...brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high, to bless his bower«. And feed with pregnant streams the plants and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...turns on every side, And winds his course before the following tide j The waves flow after, whercsoe'er he wheels, And gather fast, and murmur at his heels....when a peasant to his garden brings Soft rills of wqter from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high, to bless his bowersj. And feed with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...rings : Now here, now there, he turns on every side, And winds his course before the following tide ; The waves flow after, wheresoe'er he wheels, And gather...fast, and murmur at his heels. So when a peasant to bis garden brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high, to... | |
 | Animal behavior - 1812 - 572 pages
...106, &c. Homer, in the following simile, gives a beautiful' description' of the watering of ground : " So when a peasant to his garden brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high", to bliss his bow'rs, And feed with pregnant streams, the plants and... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1819 - 520 pages
...л-ffxffaè i, те Ss т' шки, XATuGópsvov xíX¿»-.j tw zrgaalíT, ffátu oí <ri xa'i таг cLyevTa. So when a peasant to his garden brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high, to bless his bow'rs, And feed with pregnant streams the plants and... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 344 pages
...rings: Now here, now there, he turns on every side, And winds his course before the following' tide; The waves flow after, wheresoe'er he wheels, And gather...brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high to bless his bowers, And feed with pregnant streams the plants anil... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 348 pages
...rings ; Now here, now there, he turns on every side, And winds his course before the following tide ; The waves flow after, wheresoe'er he wheels, And gather...brings Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs, And calls the floods from high, to bless his bowers, And feed with pregnant streams the plants and... | |
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