"Hyrcan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... outpoured, light-armed troops In coats of mail and military pride. In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong, Prauncing their riders bore, the flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound— From Arachosia, from Candaor east, And Margiana, to the Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucasus, and dark Iberian dales; From Atropatia, and the neighbouring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south 320 Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven. He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheeled, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the ...
— Paradise Regained • John Milton
... he speaks, she rolls her sparkling eyes, Surveys him round, and thus incensed replies; 'Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus, but in some horrid rock, Perfidious wretch! rough Caucasus thee bred, 80 And with their milk Hyrcanian tigers fed. Dissimulation I shall now forget, And my reserves of rage in order set, Could all my prayers and soft entreaties force Sighs from his breast, or from his look remorse. Where shall I first complain? can mighty Jove Or Juno such impieties approve? The just Astraea sure ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham |
