Onward they came in their joy, and around them the lamps of the sea-nymphs, Myriad fiery globes, swam panting and heaving ; and rainbows Crimson and azure and emerald, were broken in star-showers, lighting Far through the wine-dark depths of the crystal,... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1931858Full view - About this book
| Charles Kingsley - 1906 - 664 pages
...; — " And around her the lamps of the sea-nymphs, Myriad fiery globes, swam heaving and panting, and rainbows, Crimson and azure and emerald, were broken in star-showers, lighting Far through the wine-dart depths of the crystal, the gardens of Nereus. Coral and sea-fan and tangle, the blooms and... | |
| 1860 - 60 pages
...of midocean truly, but yet far other than the muddy brackish stuff in the harbor, and we look down " Far through the wine-dark depths of the crystal, the...and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean, " Silveryjish, wreathed shell, and the strange lithe things of the water." Or as the Captain less poetically... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 848 pages
...foam-flecked marble, Awed ; and the crags of the cliff, and the pines of the mountain were silent. er, my dear, All for a slanderous story, that cost...darling, seventy years ago. For Jenny, my cousin, palms of the ocean. Onward they came in their joy, more white than the foam which they scattered, Laughing... | |
| 1917 - 646 pages
...somewhat like that of Keats and Morris, yet with classic touches and phrases in the midst of its color: "Onward they came in their joy, and around them the...were broken in star-showers, lighting Far through the \vinc-dark depths of Ihe crystal, the gardens of Nereiu." Owen Meredith in 1855 published his Clytemnestra,... | |
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