 The port capacious, and secure from wind, Is to the foot of thund'ring ^Etna join'd. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks...  Pompeii - Pàgina 8per William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hugh Blair - 1856 - 652 pàgines
...port capacious, and secure from wind, Is to the foot of thundering JEtna join'd. By turns a piichy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from...sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shiTer'd by the force, come piece-meal down Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1864 - 574 pàgines
...SpnTavov, a scythe. The port capacious, and secure from wind, Is to the foot of thund'ring /Etna joined. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly. And flakes of mountain-flames that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shivered by the... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 594 pàgines
...sub auras Cum gemitu glomerat, fundoque exsestuat imo. Is to the foot of thund'ring .(Etna join'd : By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high : By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mountain flames that lick the sky ; Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 pàgines
...s li to the foot of thundering ¿Etna, join'd. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By trims hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting...sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown And shiver 'd by the force, come piece-meal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1867 - 626 pàgines
...Pithecusa, now called Ischia.* A similar fable accounted for the eruptions of Etna. By turns a pitehy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And 6akes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. her bowels massy rocks are thrown, •cred by the force,... | |
 | Zurcher, Margollé - 1868 - 326 pàgines
...shores we run. The port, capacious and secure from wind, Is to the fort of thundering JEtna joined. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mountain flames that arch the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shivered by the... | |
 | Frédéric Zurcher - 1868 - 438 pàgines
...she rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mountain flames that arch the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown,...shivered by the force, come piece-meal down ; Oft liquid cakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that burn below. Enceladus, they say, transfixed... | |
 | Virgil - 1870 - 550 pàgines
...pitchy cloud she rolls on high ; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mountain flames that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force come piecemeal down Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...similar fable accounted for the eruptions of ./Etna. liy turns a pitehy cloud she rolls on high, By turus hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting...that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels mas-sy rocks lire thrown, And, shivered by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid Inki's of buruing sulphur... | |
 | William Denton - 1872 - 348 pàgines
...eleven thousand feet high, is one of those unruly volcanoes that are never at rest Yirgil says, — " By turns, a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns,...mounting flames that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massive rocks are thrown, And, shivered by the force, come piece-meal dows. Oft liquid lakes of burning... | |
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