 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 Seiten
...countless in number. As Milton beautifully expresses it, — " The seas, And lakes, and running streams, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that...fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave I*' Nearly three-fourths of the entire surface of the globe is covered with water, scarcely a third... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1854 - 350 Seiten
...and colour of delicate sea-plants, form a picture which has its prototype nowhere but in fairyland. " The sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry...their fins, and shining scales, Glide under the green ware, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 324 Seiten
...whole myriads. " Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarmed ; and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave in plumps and sculls, Banked the mid sea." The fish-bed of the Upper Ludlow Rock abounds more in osseous... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 Seiten
...and running streams, the waters fill : o And let the fowl be multiplied on the Earth.'4 " Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, " With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals 400 " Offish that with their fins, and shining scales, " Glide under the green wave, in sculls5 that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 Seiten
...Polyolbion, Song xxvi. : " My silver-scaled scvls about my streams do sweep." And Milton, in Paradise Lost : "Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea.:' Nest. So, so, we draw together.6 Enter ACHILLES.AMI. Where is... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 Seiten
...let the fowl be multiplied on the earth !' And lakes, and running streams, the waters fill; Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry...fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls 1 that oft Bank the mid sea; part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 Seiten
...and Prussian blue, make the sea-green of the British shores. Hence the description by Milton of — * The sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry...fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea.' The colours of the bottom give their names to the Black and White... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 Seiten
...let the fowl be multiplied on the earth.' Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, M'ith fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish that with...fins, and shining scales, Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the seaweed their pasture, and... | |
 | Creative week - 1856 - 414 Seiten
...lakes, and running streams, the waters fill ; And let the fowl be multiplied on the earth.' Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry...fins, and shining scales, Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the seaweed their pasture, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 Seiten
...belching whale." Sculls are shoals of fish. It is thus used in ' Paradise Lost,' book vii. : — " Fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea." SBOT. Act II, Sc. 3. STICKLES. Act V., Sc. 7. " And, stickler-like,... | |
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Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea... 
