| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pages
...hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's ev'ning from the top Of heav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop ; Till on the...hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED INTO TREKS. The Lallan nymphs came round him, and amaz'd On the dead... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 638 pages
...hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's ev'ning from the top Of heav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop -, Till on the...hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED INTO TREEs. The Latian nymphs came round him, and amaz'd On the dead... | |
| Publius Ovidius Naso - 1812 - 582 pages
...And scatter'd o'er the earth the shining fragments The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star, That in a summer's...hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED INTO TREES. The Latian nymphs came round him, and, amaz'd, On the dead... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 302 pages
...And scatter'd o'er the earth the shining fragments The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star. That in a summer's...hurl'd, Far from his country in the western world. 'ss Stutets transformer! into Crete. The Latian nymphs came round him, and, amazed, On the dead youth... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...sereno, Etsi non cecidit, potuit cecidisse videri. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of beav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop. Aiditan. Milton adds, that this shooting star thwarts... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1827 - 312 pages
...breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star ; Till on the Fo his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country in the western world. Ovid's Met. What was the history of Circe ? Circe was a most skilful sorceress, who poisoned her husband,... | |
| Joseph Addison - Medals, Ancient - 1840 - 298 pages
...scatter'd o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop; Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from... | |
| Joseph Addison - Medals, Ancient - 1830 - 294 pages
...star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heav'n drops down, or seems at least to drop; Till Qn the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world. PHAETON'S SISTERS TRANSFORMED INTO TREES. THE Latian nymphs came round him, and amaz'd, On the dead... | |
| G. Hamilton - Painters - 1831 - 318 pages
...dreadful thunderings. .......... The breathless Phaeton, v.ilU flaming hair Shot from the chariot like ft falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven drops down. » OVID'S Metamorphoses, book a. ' This spirited composition is struck out with a vigour of thought,... | |
| George Hamilton (Writer on art) - Painting, British - 1832 - 440 pages
...he hurl'd the forky brand, In dreadful thunderings. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair Shot from the chariot like a falling star. That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven drops down. * OVID'S Metamorphoses, book »• This spirited composition is struck out with a vigour of thought,... | |
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