| John Milton - 1857 - 470 pages
...» « Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals ( M' fish that 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,... | |
| 1858 - 664 pages
...by whole myriads. " Forthwith the sands and seas, each creek and bay "With fry innumerable swarmed ; and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave in plumps and sculls." The fish-bed of the Upper Ludlow Rock abounds more in osseous remains than an... | |
| William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 376 pages
...species caine late. We read in one of our classics that once the Fish was a grass-eater: . . . . " And shoals Of fish that 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 pastures,... | |
| William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 384 pages
...Ontre species came late. We read iu one of our classics that once the Fish was a grass-eater: . . . . "And shoals Of fish that 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 pastures,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...let the fowl Ix; multiplied on the earth." Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and Ijay Witli fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish that with...fins, and shining scales, Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft liank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their jiasture,... | |
| Wonders - 1878 - 172 pages
...life," Gen. i. 20. And then, to adopt the words of our poet Milton — " Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and...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,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...amphibious monster ranges all the shores. Darts through the waves, and every haunt explores. GAY. Each bay With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish,...their fins and shining scales Glide under the green waves, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea. MILTON. The sounds and seas, with all their fimy drove,... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1879 - 526 pages
...many a locality in the Indian Ocean is there to which the lines of Milton are applicable ! — where " Each creek and bay With fry innumerable swarm, and...their fins and shining scales Glide under the green waves ; . . . . . . part single, or with mate Graze the seaweed, their pasture, and through groves... | |
| New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...earth, with wings Display'd on the open firmament of heaven." And— " Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay With fry innumerable swarm, and...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,... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 pages
...let the fowl be multiplied on the earth." Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With 2 fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish that, with...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,... | |
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