 | Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 224 pagina’s
...PLAY. So, warm and buoyant in his oily mail, Gambols on seas of ice the unwieldy whale ; Wide-waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic...o'er the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts pellucid columns into air; The silvery arches catch the setting beams, And transient rainbows tremble... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pagina’s
...THE WHALE. — WARM and buoyant, in his oily mail Gambols on seas of ice th' unwieldy whale ; Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic...the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts the wat'ry columns into air; The silvery arches catch the setting beams, And transient rainbows tremble... | |
 | 1820 - 190 pagina’s
...THE WHALE. — WARM and buoyant, in his oily mail, Gambols on seas of ice th' unwieldy , whale j Wide waving fins round floating islands urge . His bulk...the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts the wat'ry columns into air : The silvery arches catch the setting beams, And transient rai ubo ws tremb... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pagina’s
...latnb. — So, warm and buoyant in his oily mail, Gambols on seas of ice the unwieldy whale ; 290 Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic...o'er the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts pellucid columns into air ; The silvery arches catch the setting beams, And transient rainbows tremble... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pagina’s
...Young. — So, warm and buoyant in his «¡lit mail, Gambols on seas of ice the unwieldy whale ; Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic through the troubled surge. Darwin. OILS are defined by modern chemists to be proper juices of a fat or unctuous nature, either... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - 1846 - 326 pagina’s
...FOR EMIGRANTS. -Warm and buoyant, in his oily mail, Gambols on seas of ice th" unwieldy whale ; Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic...the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts the wat'ry columns into air : The silvery arches catch the setting beams, And transient rainbows tremble... | |
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Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic through the troubled surge; With hideous yawn the flying shoals he seeks, Or clasps with fringe of horn his massy cheeks, Lifts o'er the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts pellucid... 