 | John Nichols - Great Britain - 1828 - 700 pages
...light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...variation, and that the figure behind might come off better 3 ; upon their backs, Oceanus and Niger were advanced. Oceanus presented a human form, the colour of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1831 - 386 pages
...light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...mounting aloft and writhing his head from the other ; upon their backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced. Oceanus presented in a human form, the colour of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1831 - 438 pages
...sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously sente-tl ; between which two great sea-horses as big as tinlife put forth themselves, the one mounting aloft and writhing his head from the other ; upon tlu-ir backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced. Oceanus presented in a human form, the colour... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...light pieces of taffeta, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...mounting aloft, and writhing his head from the other ; upon their backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced. Oceanus presented in a human form, the colour of... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1848 - 216 pages
...light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...better: upon their backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced The Masquers were placed in a great concave shell, like mother of pearl, curiously made to move on... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - Masques - 1848 - 300 pages
...light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...: upon their backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced The Masquers were placed in a great concave shell, like mother of pearl, curiously made to move on... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright - English drama - 1853 - 510 pages
...light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed -In IK. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...: upon their backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced The Masquers were placed in a great concave shell, like mother of pearl, curiously made to move on... | |
 | 1853 - 298 pages
...light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously...variation, and that the figure behind might come off better :_upon. thelr_backs_ Oceanus and Niger were advanced..../.The Masquers were placed in a great concave... | |
 | Halwin Caldwell - Conduct of life - 1860 - 416 pages
...shells." THE MASQUES. 233 " Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously placed ; between which, two great sea-horses, as big as the...mounting aloft, and writhing his head from the other; upon their backs, Oceanus and Niger were advanced. " Oceanus presented in a human form ; the colour... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...out of wreathed shells. Behind these a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously seatjd ; between which two great sea-horses, as big as the...themselves, the one mounting aloft, and writhing his bead from the other ; upon their backs Oceanus and Niger were advanced. Oceanus presented in a human... | |
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From their backs were borne out certain light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously seated; between which, two great sea-horses, as... 
