 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1878 - 562 pages
...'And as when armourers temper in the ford The keen-edged poleaxe, or the shining sword, The red-hot metal hisses in the lake, Thus in his eyeball hiss'd the plunging stake.' Among the earliest authorities for the use of iron may be cited 1 Thus Lucretius, ' Sed prius «ris... | |
 | Mining Institute of Scotland - 1883 - 450 pages
...lines from the " Odyssey " will show— "And as when the armourer tempers with the ford, The keen-edged pole-axe, or the shining sword, The red hot metal hisses in the flood." A piece of wrought-iron, part of some tool used in the building of the great Pyramid, 4000... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...And as when arm'rers temper in the ford The keeu-edg'd pole-axe, or the shining sword, The red-hot metal hisses in the lake, Thus in his eye-ball hiss'd the plunging stake. He sends a dreadful groan, the rocks around Thro' all their inmost winding caves resound. 470 more."... | |
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Through all their inmost winding caves resound. Scared we receded. Forth with frantic hand, He tore and dash'd on earth the gory brand : Then calls the Cyclops, all that round him dwell, With voice like thunder, and a direful yell. From all their... 
