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" The silent fisher casts the insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies : So the foul monster lifts her prey on high, So pant the wretches struggling in the sky : In the wide dungeon she devours... "
The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice - Page 241
by Homerus - 1827
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 37

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 348 pages
...the wretches, ftn:ggling in the flcy ; 305 In the wide dungeon fhe devours her food, And the flefh trembles while She churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay'd ; Never, I never, fcene fo dire furvey'd ; My fhivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ;...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 4

Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1806 - 230 pages
...casts th' insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quiv'ring to the skies: So the foul monster lifts her prey on...high, So pant the wretches, struggling in the sky ; 305 In the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she chums the blood. Worn...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 408 pages
...casts th' insidious food, Withfraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quiv'ring to the skies : So the foul monster lifts her prey...on high, So pant the wretches struggling in the sky ; 305 My shiv'ring blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ; 310 Aghast I stood, a monument of woe ! Now from...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...some rock that over-hangs the flood, The silent fisher calU t If insidious food, With fraudful oare he waits the. finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering...churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay'd; Never, I never, scene so dire survey'd ; My shivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ; Aghast...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...from some rock that over-hangs the flood, The silent fisher rails ilf insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies : So the font monster lifts her prey on high, So pant the wretches, struggling in the sky ; In the wide dungeon...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...skies : Ñ) the foal monster lifts her prey on high, S peut the wretches, struggling in the sky ; la the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she churns the blood. ^ ra as I am with griefs, with care decay'd ; Sever, 1 ncvi-тг, scene so dire survey'd ; Mr shivering...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 3, Part 1

Greek literature - 1813 - 406 pages
...from some rock that overhangs the flood, The silent fisher casts the' insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it...churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay'd ; Never, I never, scene so dire surveyM! My shivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow : Aghast...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 3

Greek literature - 1813 - 386 pages
...some rock that overhangs the flood, The silent fisher casts the' insidious food, With fraudful care be waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering...churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay'd; Never, I never, scene so dire survey'd! My shivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow: Aghast...
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P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogæ Decem: The Bucolicks of Virgil, with ...

Virgil - Pastoral poetry, English - 1820 - 456 pages
...from some rock that overhangs the flood, The silent fisher casts th' insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it...churns the blood; Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay'd ; Never, I never, scene so dire survey'd ! My shiv'ring blood congeal'd forgot to flow. Aghast...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 3

Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...from some rock that overhangs the flood, The silent fisher casts th' insidious food, With fraudfut care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it...churns the blood. Worn as I am with griefs, with care decay'd ; Never, I never, scene so dire survey 'd ; My shivering blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow ;...
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