 At once the thundering sea Sicilia tore, And sunder'd from the fair Hesperian shore ; And still the neighbouring coasts and towns divides With scanty channels and contracted tides ; Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roars ; Charybdis, on the left,...  A classical tour through Italy and Sicily - Pàgina 207per sir Richard Colt Hoare (2nd bart.) - 1819Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Hone - 1827 - 394 pàgines
...of ages from the continent. "With force convulsive burst the isle away ; Through the dread opening broke the thund'ring sea : At once the thund'ring...Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roars, Charybdis tn the left the flood devours. Pitt. A great earthquake in the year 1783 diminished the perils of the... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 390 pàgines
...sea : At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore, And sunder'd from the fair Hesperian shore ; And Mill the neighbouring coasts and. towns divides With scanty...Scylla roars, Charybdis on the left the flood devours. Pitt. A great earthquake in the year 1783 diminished the perils of the pass.* Thirteen years before... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 pàgines
...the fair Hesperian shore ; And still tht neighbouring coasts and towns divides With scanty chancels, and contracted tides. Fierce to the right tremendous...Scylla roars, Charybdis on the left the flood devours. Pi«. A great earthquake in the year 1783 diminished the perils of the pass.* Thirteen years before... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 pàgines
...thund'ring sea At onco the thnnd'ring sea Sicilia tor«. And snnder'd from the fair Hesperian shore ; With scanty channels, and contracted tides. Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roars, Cbarybdis on the left the fiood devours. Our pilot says, there are many small A great earthquake in... | |
 | William Hone - 1838 - 890 pàgines
...sea Sicilia tore, And sunderM from the fair Hesperian shore j And stin the neighbouring coasts ami towns divides With scanty channels, and contracted tides. Fierce to the right tremendous Soylla roars, Chirybdis on the left the flood devours. Pitt. A great earthquake in the year 1783 diminished... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 pàgines
...thund'ring sea : At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore. And sunder'd from the fair Hesperian short- ; And still the neighbouring coasts and towns divides...Scylla roars, Charybdis on the left the flood devours. Pitt. Л great earthquake in the year 1783 diminished the perils of the pass.» Thirteen years before... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 918 pàgines
...: At once the thund'ríng sea Sicilia tore, And snnder*d from the fair Hesperian shore ; And »till the neighbouring coasts and towns divides With scanty...contracted tides. Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roan, Caarvbdis on tbe left the nW devours. Pi«. A great earthquake in the year 17R3 diminished the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1892 - 726 pàgines
...occasion. He exhausted himself in the Straits of Messina over the production of this kind of thing : — Fierce to the right tremendous Scylla roars, Charybdis...swallow'd in her womb subsides the sea, Deep, deep as hell ; and thrice she spouts away From her black bellowing gulphs disgorged on high Waves after waves, that... | |
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