 Henna there is a lake of deep water, Fergus by name ; Cayster does not hear more songs of swans, in his running streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays...  A Sicilian legacy - Page 101by Kate Ross - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1851 - 580 pages
...streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The...produce a coolness, the moist ground flowers of Tyrian 46 Henna.] — Ver. 385. Henna, or Enna, was a city so exactly situated in the middle of Sicily that... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Burt - 1892 - 138 pages
...near a lake of deep waters. A forest surrounds the lake on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The boughs keep the place cool, and the moist ground produces flowers of purple hue. There it is perpetual spring.... | |
 | Ovid - 1899 - 312 pages
...streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The...In this grove, while Proserpina is amusing herself . and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while, with childlike eagerness, she is filling... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - Sicily (Italy) - 1905 - 696 pages
...streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The...In this grove, while Proserpina is amusing herself, and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while, with child-like eagerness, she is filling... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - Sicily (Italy) - 1907 - 672 pages
...streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The...In this grove, while Proserpina is amusing herself, and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while, with child-like eagerness, she is filling... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - Sicily (Italy) - 1908 - 656 pages
...streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The...In this grove, while Proserpina is amusing herself, and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while, with child-like eagerness, she is filling... | |
 | Norma Lorimer - World War, 1914-1918 - 1916 - 472 pages
...quite bare, and used for the flax-steeping industries. She still pictured it as Ovid describes it. " The boughs produce a coolness, the moist ground flowers...There the spring is perpetual. In this grove, while Prosperina is amusing herself, and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while with child-like... | |
 | Ovid - 1919 - 578 pages
...streams, than that. A wood skirts the lake, surrounding it on every side, and with its foliage, as though with an awning, keeps out the rays of the sun. The...boughs produce a coolness, the moist ground flowers of Tvrian « 46 Henna."] — Ver. 385. Henna, or Enna, was a city so exactly situated in the middle of... | |
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