...who rules the dreary coast — A sordid god : down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean; His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas; with his pole he steers; The freights of flitting...

...stands, who rules the dreary coast — A sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean; His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas; with his pole he steers; The freights of flitting...

...ferries souls across the water. A sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean: His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas; with his pole he steers; The freights of flitting...

...rules the dreary coast — A sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean: His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas; with his pole he steers; The freights of flitting...

...stands, who rules the dreary coast— A sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean; His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. . . (trans. Dryden, VI. 413-17) An unsavoury figure, whose behaviour...

...rules the dreary coast, A sordid God ; down from his heavy chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean : His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire: A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas; with his pole he steers; The freights of flitting...