 On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these, from little dusky flies, for such only the nake'd eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering...  The Republic of Letters: A Selection, in Poetry and Prose, from the Works of ... - Side 343redigeret af - 1835Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 sider
...terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these...dusky flies, for such only the naked eye would have shewn them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 594 sider
...and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these,...and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labors of the loom contemptible in comparison. — I could at leisure, as they walked together, admire... | |
 | 1840 - 520 sider
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these,...raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with lively purple, and with a glossy gold, that would have made all the labours of the loom contemptible... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 sider
...terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants; these,...dusky flies, (for such only the naked eye would have shewn them,) were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 sider
...terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these...to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purpie, and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labours of the loom contemptible in the... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 414 sider
...terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these,...for such only the naked eye would have shown them, wero faised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy gold, that... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 sider
...terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these from little dusky flies, for euch only the naked eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 sider
...the narrow spaces between were enlarged into walks, parterres, and terraces. 779 78J pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these...and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labors of the loom contemptible in the comparison. I could, at leisure, as they walked together, admire... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 sider
...terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these from little dusky flies, for such only the naked eje would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple,... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1833 - 300 sider
...brighter than Parian marble, walked alone, in pairs, or in large companies, the winged inhabitants, stained with living purple, and with a glossy gold...labours of the loom contemptible in the comparison. There were the perfumed groves, the more than myrtle shades of the poet's fancy ; here the 104 THE... | |
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