 | Homer - 1853 - 398 pagina’s
...the god whose earthquakes rock the ground Fierce to Phseacia cross'd the vast profound. Swift as a swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace...sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock. Aghast the Scherians stand in deep surprise ; 190 All press to speak, all question with their eyes.... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1854 - 376 pagina’s
...tv !' clvov t\iatv 'Aanf iv ,..';.,..,,... Koiipil 5' tKiGliatr dn-ijvijf-t 7 '- 76. * " Swift, as a swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace...sea. The God arrests her with a sudden stroke, And rests her down an everlasting rock." — POPE. t " The Queen, assiduous to her train assigns In the... | |
 | William Beamont - 1856 - 346 pagina’s
...time I thought the petrified ship at Phaeacia, in Homer's story, no longer a fable — " Swift as a swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace shot along the sea, Till fate arrests ber with a sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock." This is peculiarly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pagina’s
...the god whose earthquakes rock the ground, Fierce to Phseacia cross'd the vast profound. Swift as a Aghast the Scherians stand in deep surprise ; All press to speak, all question with their eyes. What... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - 1863 - 510 pagina’s
...it into the rock we now see. This legend is alluded to in the thirteenth book of the Odyssey : — " Swift as the swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged...sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock." Another rock, near the north coast, competes with this for the honour of being the petrified ship.... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 394 pagina’s
...the god whose earthquakes rock the ground Fierce to Phaeacia cross'd the vast profound. Swift as a swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace...sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock. Aghast the Scherians stand in deep surprise ; All press to speak, all question with their eyes. What... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), sir Robert Lambert Playfair - 1881 - 730 pagina’s
...Ithaca was overtaken by the vengeance of Neptune, and changed into stone within sight of the port. (Od. xiii. 161.) " Swift as the swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace shut along the sea ; The God arrests her with a sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock."... | |
 | Sir James Denham - 1884 - 198 pagina’s
...the following, which certainly does not "sweep the liquid way" with regard to the final rhyme : — " Swift as the swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged...sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock." PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES. MY LADYE AND OTHERS. OPINIONS OF THE... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1890 - 1062 pagina’s
...Ithaca was overtaken by the vengeance of Neptune, and changed into stone within sight of the port. (Od. xiii. 161.) " Swift as the swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace shot along the aea ; The God arrests her with a sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock." The other... | |
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All press to speak, all question with their eyes. What hands unseen the rapid bark restrain! And yet it swims, or seems to swim, the main! Thus they, unconscious of the deed divine; Till great Alcinous, rising, own'd the sign. 
