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Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene...

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Seite 79
von Joseph Addison - 1811
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Miscellanies, Band 1

Henry Fielding - 1972 - 350 Seiten

...large Amends For ev'ry Care his other Hours attends. 1 Cf. Dryden's Virgil, Aeneid, i. 233-4: 'Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene/ Appears above, and Groves for ever green' (Works of Virgil, 1697, p. 208). 2 Cf. Dryden, Eleanora, 172-3, on a second Eve: 'Had she been first,...

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Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil - 1997 - 476 Seiten

...Oars, To nearest Land, and make the Lybian Shoars. High on his Chariot, and with loosen'd Reins, [ Within a long Recess there lies a Bay, An Island shades it from the rowling Sea, Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene Appears above, and Groves for ever green: 235...

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