This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1720 Excerpt: ...seas his toil deride, Iojo i The plunging quarries fink beneath the tide, And yielding sands the rocky fragments hide. ' s Thus, if huge Gaurus headlong shou'd be thrown, In fathomless Avemus deep to drown; Or if from fair Sicilia's distant strand, 103 $ Eryx uprooted by some gyant hand, Ifpon'drouswithhis rocks, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1720 Excerpt: ...seas his toil deride, Iojo i The plunging quarries fink beneath the tide, And yielding sands the rocky fragments hide. ' s Thus, if huge Gaurus headlong shou'd be thrown, In fathomless Avemus deep to drown; Or if from fair Sicilia's distant strand, 103 $ Eryx uprooted by some gyant hand, Ifpon'drouswithhis rocks, the mountain vast. Amidst the wide AEgean shou'd be cast; The rolling waves o'er either mass wou'd flow, And each be lost within the depths below. 104a When When no firm bafis for his work he found, V. 103?. Gmrm, ' Now called Monte Stthm, in the Kingdom of Nupia. Animus is a lake now call'd Avtrn- in the fame country. But still, it fail'd in Ocean's faithless ground, ! Huge trees and barks in massy chains he bound. J For planks and beams he ravages the wo od, And the tough Boom extends across the flood. 104j Such was the road by haughty Xerxes made, When o'er the Helltspont his bridge he laid. Vast was the task, and daring the defign, JZurope and Asia's distant shores to join, And make the world's divided parts combine. Proudly he pass'd the flood tumultuous o'er, 10c1 Fearless of waves that beat, and winds that roar; Then spread his fails, and bid the land obey, And thro' mid Athos find his Fleet a way. Like him bold Cssaryozk'd the swelling tide, 1055 Like him the boist'rous elements defy'd; This floating bank the strait'ning entrance bound, And rifing turrets trembled on the mound. But anxious cares revolve in Pompey's breast, The new surrounding mores his thoughts molest; Secret he meditates the means, to free 1061 And spread the War wide-ranging o'er the sea. Oft driving on the work with well-fill'd sails, The cordage stretching with the fresh'ning gales, Ships with a thund'ring shock the mole divide, 10 6 5 And thro' the wat'ry breach..
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Add this copy of Pharsalia, Volume 1 to cart. $52.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
