...abforbet." But thefe are moderate indeed when compared to the defcriptions of the poets : VOL. I. G That That realm of old, a ruin huge was rent, In length of ages from the continent. With force convulfive burft the ifle away; Through the dread opening broke the thundering fea. At once the thundering...

...rock re-bellows with a thundering found ; Deep, wondrous deep, below appears the ground. PorE. •f- That realm of old, a ruin huge was rent, In length of ages from the continent. With force convulfive burft the ifle away ; Through the drt^J. opening broke the ihundering fea. E + At tius,...

...fhores and feas. Far to the left thy courfe in fafety keep, And fetch a mighty circle round the deep. That realm of old, a ruin huge ! was rent In length of ages from the continent ; 555 With force convulfive burft the ifle away ; Through the dread op'ning broke the thund'ring fea...

...mores and feas. Far to the left thy courfe in fafety keep, And fetch a mighty circle round the deep. That realm of old, a ruin huge ! was rent In length of ages from the continent ; 555 With force convulfive burft the ifle away ; Through the dread op'nirig broke the thund'ring fea...

...convulsive burst the isle away, Through the dread op'ning broke the thund'ring sea. At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore, And sunder'd from the fair Hesperian...divides With scanty channels and contracted tides. Pitt, The Italian shore, And fair Sicilia's coast, were one, before An earthquake caused the flaw ;...

...huge was rent. In length of ages from the continent. With force convulsive burst the isle away ; Thro' the dread opening broke the thundering sea. At once the thundering sea Sicilia tore. And smicU-vM from the fair Hesperian shore; And still the neighbouring coasts and towns divides With scanty...

...Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit; arvaque et urbes Littore diductas angusto interlult sestu. v -K* lib. iii. That realm of old, a ruin huge ! was rent, In length...force convulsive burst the isle away, Through the dead op'ning broke the thund'ring sea. At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore, And sunder'd from the...

...shores and seas. Far to the left thy course in safety keep, And fetch a mighty circle round the deep. That realm of old, a ruin huge ! was rent, In length...from the continent ; With force convulsive burst the ble away, Through the dread op'ning broke the thund'ring sea. At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore,...

...Siculo latus abscidit ; arvaque et urbes Littore diductas angusto interluit sestu. -1iN. lib. iii. That realm of old, a ruin huge ! was rent, In length of ages, from the continent j With force convulsive burst the isle away, , Through the dead op' ning broke the thund'ring sea....

...thundering sound ; Deep, wondrous deep, below appear* the ground. Virgil imagines the origin of this terrific That realm of old, a ruin huge, was rent...the isle away ; Through the dread opening broke the thund'ring sea : At once the thund'ring sea Sicilia tore. And sunder1 d from the fair Hesperian shore...