 Tydides rushing to the war. As when the winds, ascending by degrees, First move the whitening surface of the seas, The billows float in order to the shore, The wave behind rolls on the wave before; Till, with the growing storm, the deeps arise, Foam o'er...  The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope - Page 104by Homerus - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...by degrees', First move the whitening surface of the seas ; The billows float in order to the shore; The wave behind rolls on the wave before ; Till with...Foam o'er the rocks, and thunder to the skies. So to ihejight the fierce battalions throng ; Shields urg'd on shields, and men drove men along. " Who rises,... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...by degrees, First move the whitening surface of the seat ; The billows float in order to the shore ; The wave behind rolls on the wave before ; Till with...Foam o'er the rocks, and thunder to the skies. So to \hejight the fierce battalions throng ; Shields urgVl on shields, and men drove men along. " Who rises,... | |
 | Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...First move the whit'ning surface of the seas, The billows float in order to the shore, The wave behinjl rolls on the wave before', Till with the growing storm...arise, Foam o'er the rocks, and thunder to the skies. Thus to the fight the red battalions throng, Chief urg'd on chief, and man drove man along 5 Sedate... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...with the growing storm, the deeps arise, Foam o'er the rocks and thunder to the skies. So to \heßght the thick battalions throng, Shields urg'd on shields, and men drove men along. steel. Shields sound, and warriors fall. As a hundred hammers on the red son of the furnace, so rose,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...480 The wave hehind rolls on the wave hefore, Till, with the growing storm,' the deeps arise, Foum o'er the rocks, and thunder to the skies : So, to the fight, the thick hattalions throng, Shields urg'd on shields, and men drove men along. Sedate and silent move the num'rous... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...of the seas, The hillows float in order to the shore, 480 The wave hehind rolls on the wave hefore; Till, with the growing storm, the deeps arise, Foam...and thunder to the skies. So to the fight the thick hattalions throng, Shields urg'd on shields, and men drove men along. Sedate and silent move the numerous... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...by degrees, First move the whitening surface of the seas, The billows float in order to the shore, The wave behind rolls on the wave before ; Till with...battalions throng, Shields urg'd on shields, and men drove mon along. Sedate and silent move the numerous bauds ; No sound, no whisper, but the chiefs commands,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...before ; 111 with the growing storm, the deeps arise, 'oain o'er the rocks and thunder to the skies. k> to the fight the thick battalions throng. Shields...men along. Sedate and silent move the numerous bands ; Jo sound, no whisper, but the chiefs commands, 'In >.»r only heard ; with awe the rest obey, As... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 796 pages
...by degrees, First move the whitening surface of the seas, Tin: billows float in order to the shore, The wave behind rolls on the wave before ; Till, with the growing storm, the de«ps arise, Foam o'er the rocks, and thunder to the skies. Pope. 8. •' • whistle through the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...float in order to the shore, The wave behind rolls on the wa\e before ; Till, with the gTiwing sturm, the deeps arise, Foam o'er the rocks, and thunder to the .skies. Pope. 8. whistle through the bending trees, &c.] In the original it is, « CTiry; aan, the pine-tree... | |
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