 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...Cave is cool'd, and the fierce Winds relent. Or whether Sulphur, catching Fire, feeds on Its unftuous Parts, till all the Matter gone The Flames no more afcend ; for Earth fuppHes The Fat that feeds them ; and when Earth denies That Food, by length of Timeconfum'd, the Fire... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
...cave is cool'd, and the fierce winds relent. Or whether fulphur, catching fire, feeds on Its unctuous parts, till all the matter gone The flames no more...expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who fliiv'ring fuffer Hyperborean cold, Till nine times bathing in Minerva's lake, Soft feathers to defend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 366 pages
...oppos'd, They tofs up flints in air ; the flints that hide The feeds of fire, thus tofs'd in air, collide, Kindling the fulphur, till the fuel fpent The cave...denies That food, by length of time confum'd, the fire Fami(h'd for want of fuel muft expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who (hivering fu(Fer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...cave is cool'd, and the fierce winds relent. Or whether fulphur, catching fire, feeds on Its unftuous parts, till all the matter gone The flames no more...expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who (hivering fuffer Hyperborean cold, Till, nine times bathing in Minerva's lake, Soft feathers to defend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...is cool'd, and the fierce winds relent. Or whether fulphur, catching fire, fseds on " Its unftaous parts, till all the matter gone The flames no more...denies That food, by length of time confum'd, the fire Famifh'd'for want of fuel muft expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who fhivering fuffer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...cave is cool'd, and the fierce winds relent. Or whether fulphur, catching fire, feeds on Its unftuous parts, till all the matter gone The flames no more afcend ; for earth fupplics The fat that feeds them ; and when earth denies That food, by length of time confum'd, the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1771 - 256 pages
...fulphur, catching fire, feeds on lts unftuous parts, till all [he matter gone The flames no more afeend ; for earth fupplies The fat that feeds them ; and when...denies That food, by length of time confum'd, the fire Fami(h'd for want of fewel muft expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who (hiv'ring fu(fer... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 362 pages
...cave is cool'd, and the fierce winds relent. Or whether fulphur, catching fire, feeds on, Its unftuous parts till all the matter gone The flames no more...denies That food, by length of time confum'd, the fire Famim'd for want of fuel muft expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who Havering fnffer... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...fat that feeds them ; and when eanh denies That food, by length of time coBfum'd, the fire Famifli'd for want of fuel muft expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who fliiveriug fufler Hyperborean cold, Till, nine times bathing in Minerva's lake, Soft feathers to defend... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...; and when eanh dtuie* That food, by length of time confum'd, the &re Famifh'd (or want of fuel muH expire. A race of men there are, as fame has told, Who fhivering fnffer Hyperborean cold, Till, nine timu bathing in Minerva's lake, Soft feathers to defend... | |
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till all the matter gone The flames no more ascend; for Earth supplies... 
