 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 460 pages
...by the neighbouring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...already meditated against the continent of Africa. The streights of Rhegium and Messina * are twelve miles in length, and, in the narrowest passage, about... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 528 pages
...by the neighbouring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...and a half broad ; and the fabulous monsters of the deeps the rocks of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis, could terrify none but the most timid and... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...attracted by the neighbouring prospect of a fair and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...and, in the narrowest passage, about one mile and a hall broad ; and the fabulous monsters of the deep, the rocks of Scylla, and the whirlpool of Charybdis,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
..."To-morrow in the battle think on me, And tantaredeeks» sword; despair and die !" BichordUL pedition which he already meditated against the continent of Africa. The straits of Rheginm and Messina are twelve mile« in length, and, in the narrowest passage, about one mile and... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pages
...attracted by the neighbouring prospect of a fair and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...meditated against the continent of Africa. The straits of Rhcgium and Messina are twelve miles in length, and, in the narrowest passage, about one mile and a... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1836 - 472 pages
...To-morrow in the battle think on me, And fall thy edgelesB sword ; despair and die !" Riclard III. pedition which he already meditated against the continent of...and, in the narrowest passage, about one mile and a halt broad ; and the fabulous monsters of the deep, the rocks of Scylla, and the whirlpool of Charybdie,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 486 pages
...by the neighbouring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...the continent of Africa. The straits of Rhegium and Messina(127) are twelve miles in length, and in the narrowest passage, about one mile and a half broad... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - History, Ancient - 1846 - 414 pages
...by the neighbouring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily, he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...the deep, the rocks of Scylla, and the whirlpool of Charibdis, could terrify none but the most timid and unskilful mariners. But as soon as the first division... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - History, Ancient - 1846 - 414 pages
...by the neighbouring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily, he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...the deep, the rocks of Scylla, and the whirlpool of Charibdis, could terrify none but the most timid and unskilful mariners. But as soon as the first division... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1852 - 684 pages
...by the neighboring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important...continent of Africa. The Straits of Rhegium and Messina 12S are twelve miles in length, and, in the narrowest passage, about one mile and a half broad ; and... | |
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Messina are twelve miles in length, and, in the narrowest passage, about one mile and a half broad ; and the fabulous monsters of the deep, the rocks of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis, could terrify none but the most timid and unskilful mariners... 
