 By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down.  The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius - Page 289by Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1854 - 1314 pages
...capacious, and secure from wind, If to the foot of thundering JEtne. join'd. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flame* that lick the iky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shirer'd by the force, come... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - History, Ancient - 1864 - 574 pages
...capacious, and secure from wind, Is to the foot of thund'ring /Etna joined. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly. And flakes of mountain-flames that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shivered by the... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 594 pages
...glomerat, fundoque exsestuat imo. Is to the foot of thund'ring .(Etna join'd : By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high : By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mountain flames that lick the sky ; Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1866 - 654 pages
...s li to the foot of thundering ¿Etna, join'd. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By trims hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown And shiver 'd by the force, come piece-meal down. Oft... | |
 | Volcanoes - Physical sciences - 1867 - 136 pages
...capacious, and secure from wind, Is to the toot of thund'ring Etna joined. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high : By turns hot embers from her entrails...fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shivered by the force come piece-meal down. Oft... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1867 - 626 pages
...now called Ischia.* A similar fable accounted for the eruptions of Etna. By turns a pitehy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And 6akes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. her bowels massy rocks are thrown, •cred by the force,... | |
 | Zurcher, Margollé - Earthquakes - 1868 - 326 pages
...capacious and secure from wind, Is to the fort of thundering JEtna joined. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mountain flames that arch the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shivered by the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1871 - 624 pages
...similar fable accounted for the eruptions of ./Etna. liy turns a pitehy cloud she rolls on high, By turus hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels mas-sy rocks lire thrown, And, shivered by the force, come piecemeal down.... | |
 | William Denton - Geology - 1872 - 348 pages
...one of those unruly volcanoes that are never at rest Yirgil says, — " By turns, a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns, hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massive rocks are thrown, And, shivered by the force, come piece-meal dows.... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 266 pages
...earliest times. The most recent great eruption was so late as in 1874. " By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high ; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames that lick the sky. • Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shivered by the force, come piece-meal down... | |
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