| Robert Macoy - 1855 - 356 pages
...branching olive prows, And crowns the pointed cliffs with shady boughs, Beneath ft gloomy grotto's cool recess, Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring...living stone, And massy beams in native marble shone : Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual water* o'er tke pavement glide ; Two marble... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...boughs. Beneath, a gloomy grotto's cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring seas ; Where bowU s involved around The towers, the fields, and the...thousand lives together fled, Death with his scythe depend. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide ; Two marble doors unfold on either side ; Sacred... | |
| 1860 - 452 pages
...and urns were forni'd of living stone, And massy beums in nnlive marble shone: On which the labors of the nymphs were roll'd Their webs divine of purple mix'd with gold. Withm the cave the clust'ring bees attend Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual waters... | |
| Homerus - 1874 - 394 pages
...branching olive grows, And crowns the pointed cliffs with shady boughs. Beneath, a gloomy grotto's cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring...stone, And massy beams in native marble shone, On which tue labours of the nymphs were roll'd, Their webs divine of purple mix'd with gold. Within the cave... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1876 - 420 pages
...branching olive grows, And crowns the pointed cliffs with shady houghs. Beneath, a gloomy grotto's cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring...clustering bees attend Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide ; Two marble doors unfold on either side ; Sacred... | |
| William Smith - 1882 - 340 pages
...grotto's cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighb'ring seas; Where bowls and urns were formed of living stone, And massy beams in native marble shone ; On which the labours of the nymphs were rolled. Their webs divine of purple mixed with gold. Within the cave the clust'ring bees attend Their... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighb'ring seas, Where bowls and urns were form'd of IiYing stone, And massy beams in native marble shone: On...divine of purple mix'd with gold. Within the cave the clust'ring bees attend 130 Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement... | |
| Homer - 1907 - 444 pages
...branching olive grows, And crowns the pointed cliffs with shady boughs. Beneath, a gloomy grotto's cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighbouring seas, Where bowls and urns were formed of living stone. And massy beams in native marble shone : On which the labours of the nymphs... | |
| James Reuel Smith - 1922 - 776 pages
...native marble shone, On which the labors of the nymphs were rolled, Their webs divine of purple mixed with gold. Within the cave the clustering bees attend Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide;'5 Two marble doors unfold on either side; Sacred... | |
| James Reuel Smith - 1922 - 762 pages
...grotto's cool recess Delights the Nereids of the neighboring seas, Where bowls and urns were formed of living stone, And massy beams in native marble shone, On which the labors of the nymphs were rolled, Their webs divine of purple mixed with gold. Within the cave the... | |
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