| 1776 - 478 sider
...Earn. Forthwith ilie sounds and seas, each creek and bay With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals 400 Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold, Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 sider
...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, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their w.iv'd coats dropt... | |
| 1800 - 322 sider
...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...groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance, Shew to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend . . Moist... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 sider
...the mid sea : part single or with mate Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through grove* Of eoral stray; or sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with goidj Or io their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment; or under rocks their food In jointed... | |
| 1806 - 330 sider
...the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea: part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and thro' groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance, Shew to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sider
...the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and thro' groves Of coral stray, or...Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold; Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 sider
...with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves BOOK vii. PARADISE LOST. 406—434. Of coral stray ; or, sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold ; Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment ; or under rocks their food In jointed... | |
| 1817 - 494 sider
...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, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the Sun their teaved coats dropt... | |
| Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 644 sider
...swarm, and shoals Of fish glide under the green wave. I'art single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture; and thro' groves Of coral stray, or...variety, and exquisite flavour.* But of the tribes which * The most delicious bird in the West Indies is the Ortolan or October-bird. It is the emberiza oryzivora... | |
| 664 sider
...under the green wave, in sculls that ofl Bank the mid sea ; part single or with mate Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and thro' groves , Of coral stray ; or sporting with quick glance Shew to the sun their wav d coats drop d with gold. The Garpike and Skipper (Esox Bellone & E. Saurus)... | |
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