 | Patrick Brydone - 1773 - 394 страници
...Italian and Sicilian poets, who all fpeak of it in terms of horror ; and feprefent it as an objecl that infpired terror, even when looked on at a diftance....motion, continued for fo many ages, has by degrees wore finooth the rugged rocks, and jutting (helves, that may have intercepted and Confined the waters.... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 258 страници
...Italian and Sicilian poets, who all fpeak of it in terms of horror; and reprefent it as an obje£t that infpired terror, even when looked on at a diftance....the Straits too, in this place, I make no doubt is confiderably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things it muft be fo ; the perpetual friction occafioned... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1806 - 428 страници
...old Italian and Sicilian poets, who all fpeak of k in terms of horror ; and reprefent it as an objeft that infpired terror, even when looked on at a diftance....have intercepted and confined the waters. The breadth * Dire Scylla there a fcene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms : When the... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 страници
...motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves, that may have intercepted and confined the waters....considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things it must be so ; the perpetual friction occasioned by the current must wear away the bank on each side,... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 390 страници
...motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves, that may have intercepted and confined the waters....considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things it must be so ; the perpetual friction occasioned by the current must wear away the bank on each side,... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 страници
...motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves, that may have intercepted and confined the waters....considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things it must be so ; the perpetual friction occ:isioned by the current must wear away the bank on eacli side,... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 страници
...for so many a,1«, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves, that may ''»ve intercepted and confined the waters. The breadth of the Straits too, in this place, ' make no doubt is considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things it must I*»: the perpetual... | |
 | William Hone - 1838 - 890 страници
...motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves, that may have intercepted and confined the waters....considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things it must be so ; the perpetual friction occasioned by llie current must wear away the bank on each side,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 страници
...motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves that may have intercepted and confined the waters....considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things, it must be so ; the perpetual friction occasioned by the current must wear away the bank on each side,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 страници
...motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves that may have intercepted and confined the waters....considerably enlarged. Indeed, from the nature of things, it must be so ; the perpetual friction occasioned by the current must wear away the bank on each side,... | |
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It certainly is not now so formidable ; and very probably, the violence of this motion, continued for so many ages, has by degrees worn smooth the rugged rocks and jutting shelves, that may have intercepted and confined the waters. The breadth of the... 