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" As the red comet, from Saturnius sent To fright the nations with a dire portent, (A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wintry main) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair ;... "
Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835 - Page 32
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1

Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...from Olympus' height. As the red comet, from Saturnius sent To fright the nations with a dire portent, (A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wintry main) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair:...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...Olympus' height. 100 As the red comet, from Saturnios sent To fright the nations with a dire portent (A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wintry main), With sweeping glories glides along in air, 105 And shakes the sparkles from its blazing...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Olympus' height. 100 As the red comet, from Satumius sent, To fright the nations with a dire portent, n haste ; Vor seek unpractised to direct the car, Content with ja wintry main,) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair;...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...from Olympus' height. As the red comet, from Saturmus sent To fright the nations with a dire portent, wintry main,) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair...
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Lessons on the globes

T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...as " blazing stars ;" harbingers of Divine vengeance ; omens of pestilence and general calamity. " A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wat'ry main." Even considerably after the dawn from the gross darkness of the middle ages, they were regarded as...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...Olympus' height. . 100 As the red comet, from Saturnius sent, To fright the nations with a dire portent, (A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wintry main,) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair...
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A Catalogue of Books, the Property of a Political Economist: With Critical ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 pages
...of Minerva : — " As the red comet, from Saturnius sent. To fright the nations with a dire portent, (A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wintry main,) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair."...
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The Testimony of the Heathen to the Truths of Holy Writ: A Commentary on the ...

Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 726 pages
...heaven shall be shaken. " So the red comet from Saturnius sent To fright the nations with a dire portent A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the winter main, With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair."—HOK....
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Beautiful thoughts from Greek authors, with Engl. transl. and lives of the ...

Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 424 pages
...атгмвт/ре? terrât. As the red comet, from Saturnius sent To fright the nations with a dire portent, (A fatal sign to armies on the plain, Or trembling sailors on the wintry main,) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair....
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Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur ..., Volume 10

Astronomy - 1873 - 336 pages
...and Trojans : — ' As the red comet from Saturnins sent To fright the nations with a dire portent, (A fatal sign to armies on the plain Or trembling sailors on the wintry main,) With sweeping glories glides along in air, And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair.'...
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