 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...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 pages
...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 with gold, Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1805 - 464 pages
...Each creek and b»y With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fiih glide under the green wave. Part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture;...stray, or sporting with quick glance, Show to the son their wav'd coats dropt with gold. While the woods and the marshes equally abound with wild fowl... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 452 pages
...swarm, and shoals Of fish glide under the green wave. • Part single, or with mate, Graze the sea- weed their pasture ; and thro' groves Of coral stray, or...and exquisite flavour. [| But of the tribes which these islands still abundantly furnish, and from whose nature and properties there is no reason to... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...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 with gold, Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under... | |
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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 waved coats dropt with gold... 
