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" The silent fisher casts the insidious food. With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies : So the foul monster lifts her prey on high, So pant the wretches struggling in the sky : In the wide dungeon she devours... "
P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogæ Decem: The Bucolicks of Virgil, with ... - Page 229
by Virgil - 1820 - 336 pages
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The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 4

Homer - 1806 - 230 pages
...casts th' insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quiv'ring to the skies: So the foul monster lifts her prey on...high, So pant the wretches, struggling in the sky ; 305 In the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she chums the blood. Worn...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 408 pages
...casts th' insidious food, Withfraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quiv'ring to the skies : So the foul monster lifts her prey...on high, So pant the wretches struggling in the sky ; 305 My shiv'ring blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ; 310 Aghast I stood, a monument of woe ! Now from...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice

Homerus - 1807 - 488 pages
...frandful care he waits the fiuny prize, And sndden lifts it quivering to the skies : So the foul mouster lifts her prey on high, So pant the wretches, struggling in the sky ; 305 In the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she churus the blood....
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...arms are stretch'd no more. As, from some rock that over-hangs the flood, The silent fisher rails ilf insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny...And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies : So the font monster lifts her prey on high, So pant the wretches, struggling in the sky ; In the wide dungeon...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...skies : Ñ) the foal monster lifts her prey on high, S peut the wretches, struggling in the sky ; la the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she churns the blood. ^ ra as I am with griefs, with care decay'd ; Sever, 1 ncvi-тг, scene so dire survey'd ; Mr shivering...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 3

1821 - 398 pages
...did never see In all my sufferance, ransacking the seas, A spectacle so full of miseries." Chapman. " As, from some rock that overhangs the flood, The silent...churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay 'd ; Never, I never, scene so dire survey'd ; My shivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ;...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 3

Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...did never see In all my sufferance, ransacking the seas, A spectacle so full of miseries." Chapman. "As, from some rock that overhangs the flood, The...churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay 'd ; Never, I never, scene so dire survey'd ; My shivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ;...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...arms are stretch'd no more. As from some rock that overhangs the flood, The silent fisher casts the' insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny...the sky ; In the wide dungeon she devours her food, Andthe flesh trembles while she churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay 'd ; Never,...
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The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 492 pages
...the marrow, and the blood he drains, Nor entrails, flesh, nor solid bone remains. Or that of Scylla, In the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she churns the blood. Deformity is always disgusting, and the imagination cannot reconcile it with the idea of a favourite...
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The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Correspondence. Miscellaneous pieces

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 484 pages
...the marrow, and the blood he drains, Nor entrails, flesh, nor solid bone remains. Or that of Scylla, In the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she churns the blood. Deformity is always disgusting, and the imagination cannot reconcile it with the idea of a favourite...
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