 | 1776 - 478 pages
...Earn. Forthwith ilie sounds and seas, each creek and bay With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals 400 Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold, Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid-sea : part single or with mate Graze the sea- weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their w.iv'd coats dropt... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea: part single, or with mate, Graze the sea weed their...groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance, Shew to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend . . Moist... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the mid sea : part single or with mate Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through grove* Of eoral stray; or sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with goidj Or io their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment; or under rocks their food In jointed... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea: part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and thro' groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance, Shew to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and thro' groves Of coral stray, or...Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold; Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves BOOK vii. PARADISE LOST. 406—434. Of coral stray ; or, sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold ; Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment ; or under rocks their food In jointed... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea: part single or with mate Graze the sea weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the Sun their teaved coats dropt... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 644 pages
...swarm, and shoals Of fish glide under the green wave. I'art single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture; and thro' groves Of coral stray, or...variety, and exquisite flavour.* But of the tribes which * The most delicious bird in the West Indies is the Ortolan or October-bird. It is the emberiza oryzivora... | |
 | 664 pages
...under the green wave, in sculls that ofl Bank the mid sea ; part single or with mate Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and thro' groves , Of coral stray ; or sporting with quick glance Shew to the sun their wav d coats drop d with gold. The Garpike and Skipper (Esox Bellone & E. Saurus)... | |
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Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour... 
