 | 1837 - 222 pages
...to Minerva. Laocoon, Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer ; When (dreadful to behold !} from sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. We fled amazed; their destined way they take, And to Laocoon... | |
 | 1847 - 454 pages
...side. But he failed in his purpose; and while he was sacrificing an ox to Neptune, the poet says, " From sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sw cер along the swelling tide. Their flaming crests above the waves they show : Their bellies... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...tradition : — " Laocoon, Neptnne's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer : When, — dreadful to behold ! — from sea we spied Two serpents ranked abreast the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide, Their flaming crests above the waves they show, Their bellies... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - 1849 - 510 pages
...Pallas (Jam summas arces Tritonia, respice, Pallas Insedit, &c.J V. 204. Horresco referent.—This interjection is not placed indifferently any where...Tenedon behold in circles great By the calm seas come (leeting, adders twain; Which plied towards the shore (I loathe to tell) With reared breast lift up... | |
 | James Henry - 1853 - 638 pages
...weaker effect which it would have had, if placed at a greater distance before IMMENSIS ORBIBUS ANGUF.S, is shown by Dryden's translation: "When, dreadful...tell) With reared breast lift up above the seas." Compare: "Tritonia, respice, Pallas ," v. 615, and Comra. PECTORA QUORUM &c. "Thus Satan, talking to... | |
 | James Henry - 1853 - 616 pages
...if placed at a greater distance before IMMENSIS ORBIBUS ANGUES, is shown by Dryden's translation: c "When, dreadful to behold, from sea we spied Two serpents,...tell) With reared breast lift up above the seas." Compare: "Tritonia, respice, Pallas ," v. 615, and Comm. PECTORA QUORUM <fec. "Thus Satan, talking... | |
 | James Henry - 1853 - 626 pages
...if placed at a greater distance before IMMENSIS ORBIBUS ANGUES, is shown by Dryden's translation: c "When, dreadful to behold, from sea we spied Two serpents,...placed after, by Surrey's: "From Tenedon, behold, in cireles great By the calm seas come fleeting, adders twain; Which plied towards the shore (I loathe... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1871 - 128 pages
...the dire event. Laocoon, Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer; When (dreadful to behold !) from sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, 270 And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. Their flaming crests above the waves they shew, Their... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 444 pages
...dire event. ) Laocoiin, Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer ; When (dreadful to behold !) from sea we spied \ Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, > And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. ) Their flaming crests above the waves they show; Their bellies... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 456 pages
...dire event. / Laocoon, Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer; When (dreadful to behold !) from sea we spied \ Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, > And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. ) Their flaming crests above the waves they show; Their bellies... | |
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Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer ; When (dreadful to behold !) from sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. 
