 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 480 pàgines
...parleying staid, XXVI. By the rich scent we found our perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie; And round about their murdering cannon lay, At once to threaten and invite the eye. Though the false Dane agreed to sell 'am, lie cheated us, and saved Skellum. The Insipidt. Another... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 pàgines
...parleying staid, XXVI. By the rich scent we found our perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie; And round about their murdering cannon lay, At once to threaten and invite the eye. Though the false Dane agreed to sell 'am, He cheated us, and saved Skellum. The Insijnda. Another wit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pàgines
...the rich scent we found our perfum'd prey, Which, flank'd with rocks, did close in covert lie : 20 And round about their murdering cannon lay, At once...Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake th* unequal war : Seven ships alone, by which the port is barr'd, Besiege the Indies,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pàgines
...eastern spring. By the rich scent we found our perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie ; And round about their murdering cannon...threaten and invite the eye. Fiercer than cannon and than rorks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war : Seven ships alone, by which the port is barred,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pàgines
...eastern spring. By the rich scent we found our perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie ; And round about their murdering cannon...Fiercer than cannon and than rocks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war : Seven ships alone, by which the port is barred, Besiege the Indies... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 pàgines
...begun. XXVI. • By the rich scent we found one perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie ; And round about their murdering cannon lay, At once to threaten and invite the eye. XXVH. Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war : Seven... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pàgines
...eastern spring. 1 0 By the rich scent we found our perfum'd prey, Which, flank'd with rocks, did close in covert lie : And round about their murdering cannon...Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake th' unequal war : Seven ships alone, by which the port is barr'd, Besiege the Indies,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 pàgines
...war begun. XXVI. By the rich scent we found one perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie ; And round about their murdering cannon lay, At once to threaten and invite the eye. XXVII. Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war : Seven... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 524 pàgines
...eastern spring. By the rich scent we found our perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie ; And round about their murdering cannon...Fiercer than cannon and than rocks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war : Seven ships alone, by which the port is barred, Besiege the Indies... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pàgines
...where the war begun. By the rich scent we found one perfumed prey, Which, flanked with rocks, did close in covert lie; And round about their murdering cannon...Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war; Seven ships alone, by which the port is barred, Besiege the Indies,... | |
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Which, flank'd with rocks, did close in covert lie ; And round about their murdering cannon lay, At once to threaten and invite the eye. Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake th' unequal war : Seven ships alone, by which... 
