 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pagine
...scattered along it's steep and woody hanks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrours, and the devotien of the Grecian navigators, who, after the example...explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine. On these hanks, tradition long preserved the memory of the palace of Phineus, .infested by the obscene harpies;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pagine
...ignominious CHAP' history, than in the fables, of antiquity *. A crowd ' of temples and of votive altars profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks,...palace of Phineus, infested by the obscene harpies t; and of the sylvan reign of Amycus, who defied the son of Leda to the combat of the Cestus. The streights... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 492 pagine
...its steep and wooded banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Greek navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts,...Amycus, who defied the son of Leda to the combat of the Centaurs." * The Cyanean rocks, which, according to the description of the poets, once floated on the... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 278 pagine
...its steep and wooded banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Greek navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts,...by the obscene harpies, and of the sylvan reign of A my ens, who defied the son of Leda to the combat of the Centaurs,"* The Cyanean rocks, which, according... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 476 pagine
...its steep and wooded banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Greek navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts, explored the dangers of the inhospitable THE BOSPHORUS. 261 Euxine. On these banks tradition long preserved the memory of the palace of Phineus... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pagine
...celebrated in the history than in the fables of antiquity.3 A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks,...the inhospitable Euxine. On these banks tradition Iqng preserved the memory of the palace of Phineus, infested by the obscene harpies ;4 and of the sylvan... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1879 - 220 pagine
...celebrated in the history than in the fables of antiquity. A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks,...Grecian navigators, who, after the example of the Ar0-on. mts, explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine. On these banks tradition long preserved... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pagine
...crowd of temples and of votive altars profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks a tested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of...navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts, 1 explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine. On these banks tradition long preserved the memory... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pagine
...of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks, attested the unskilt'ulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Grecian navigators,...by the obscene Harpies, and of the sylvan reign of Amyous, who defied the son of Lecla to the combat of the cestus. The straits of the Bosphorus are terminated... | |
 | Helmuth Graf von Moltke - 1893 - 670 pagine
...©фгааг^е 9Jîeer, ber geíürфtete *)Jontuâ ßujinuä." 97) ©ibbon Яар. 17 Sb. II, 278: „On these banks tradition long preserved the memory...of the palace of Phineus, infested by the obscene haipies; and of the sylvan reign of Amyous." »8) 21иф bicfe aingabe ftammt oua ©ibbon II, 8, 279;... | |
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Bosphorus, a name not less celebrated in the history than in the fables of antiquity. A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Grecian... 
