| Virgil - 1909 - 454 pages
...cover'd o'er. These grave Auletes leads: a hundred sweep With stretching oars at once the glassy deep. Him and his martial train the Triton bears; High on...tail beneath his belly grows; And ends a fish: his breast the waves divides, And froth and foam augment the murm'ring tides. Full thirty ships transport... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...bears; High on his poop the sea-green god appears: Frowning he seems his crooked shell to sound, 300 And at the blast the billows dance around. A hairy...porpoise tail beneath his belly grows; And ends a li.-li: his breast the waves divides, And froth and foam augment the murm'ring tides. Full thirty ships... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...cover'd o'er. These grave Auletes leads: a hundred sweep With stretching oars at once the glassy deep. Him and his martial train the Triton bears; High on...appears : Frowning he seems his crooked shell to sound, 300 And at the blast the billows dance around. A hairy man above the waist he shows; A porpoise tail... | |
| Virgil - 1997 - 434 pages
...covered o'er. These grave Aulestes leads: a hundred sweep With stretching oars at once the glassy deep. Him, and his martial train, the Triton bears; High...appears: Frowning he seems his crooked shell to sound, 300 And at the blast the billows dance around. A hairy man above the waist he shows; A porpoise-tail... | |
| Virgil - 1997 - 476 pages
...cover'd o're.) These grave Auletes leads. A hundred sweep, With stretching Oars at once the glassy deep: Him, and his Martial Train, the Triton bears, High on his Poop the Sea-green God appears: 300 Frowning he seems his crooked Shell to sound, And at the Blast the Billows dance around. A hairy... | |
| James Boswell - 2006 - 302 pages
...properly be used at sea. Virgil represents Triton, coerula concha Exterrens freta. /Eneid. lib. x. 1. 209 Frowning he seems his crooked shell to sound, And at the blast the billows dance around. DRYDEN.31 Colonel Montgomery31 has told me, that the shell is used in America, particularly in Carolina.... | |
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