"Surgy" Quotes from Famous Books
... curls a surgy mane; Here from our strict embrace a stream he glides, And last, sublime his stately growth he rears, A tree, and well-dissembled foliage wears.—POPE. [Footnote: I have here quoted the translation of Pope, ... — Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel
... away again. Within a little space again it gave Its airy swellings, with a gentle wave, To light-hung leaves, in smoothest echoes breaking Through copse-clad vallies,—ere their death, o'ertaking The surgy murmurs of ... — Endymion - A Poetic Romance • John Keats |