 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...His ample hat his beainy locks o'erspread, And veil'd the starry glories of his head. He seiz'd the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye ; Tint drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts, 435 Or back to life compels the wand'ring ghost*.... | |
 | 1809 - 364 pages
...lasting peace between Ulysses and his subjects ; which conduits the Odyssey. THE ODYSSEY. BOOK XXIV. CYLLENIUS now to Pluto's dreary reign Conveys the...slumber seals the wakeful eye, That drives the ghosts to reahus of night or day, Points out the long uncomfortable way. Trembling the spectres glide, and plaintive... | |
 | John Jortin - 1809 - 268 pages
...artiiicio grave inest quiddam : soleitiaque ejus decipit seducens fabulis." Nem. Vii. 2g. S Si ij/u%« s " Cyllenius now to Pluto's dreary reign Conveys the dead, a lamentable train," &c. Odyss. Q. i. The Odyssea is by no means unworthy of him ; and if the Ilias hath more dignity, majesty,.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...goddess Pallas makes a lasting peace between Dysscs and bis subjects, »hich Concludes the Odyssey. CYLLENIUS now to Pluto's dreary reign Conveys the...lamentable train ! The golden wand, that causes sleep tc fly, t)r in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye, That drives the ghosts to realms of night or day... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...Pallas makes a lasting peace between Ulysses and his subjects, which concludes the Odyssey. CYM.ENIUS now to Pluto's dreary reign Conveys the 'dead, a lamentable train ! The golden wand, that causes sleep 1o tly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye. That drives the ghosts to realms of night or day... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...through fields of air his flight sustain O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main. He grasps the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye : Then shoots from Heaven to high Pieria's steep, And stoops incumbent on the rolling deep. So watery... | |
 | 1813 - 406 pages
...through fields of air his flight sustain O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main. He grasps the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye; Then shoots from heaven to high Pieria's steep, And stoops incumbent on the rolling deep. So watery... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 pages
...through fields of air his flight sustain O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main. He grasps the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye : Then shoots from heaven to high Pieria's steep, And stoops incumbent on the rolling deep. So watery... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...through fields of air his flight sustain O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main. He grasps the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye ; Then shoots from heaven to high Pieria's steep, And stoops incumbent on the rolling deep. So watery... | |
 | Homerus - 1827 - 538 pages
...through fields of air his flight sustain O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main. He grasps the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumber seals the wakeful eye : Then shoots from heaven to high Pieria's steep, rd stoops incumbent on the rolling deep. jo watery... | |
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So watery fowl, that seek their fishy food, With wings expanded o'er the foaming flood, Now sailing smooth the level surface sweep, Now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Thus o'er the world of waters Hermes... 
