 As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds. Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies...  The Quarterly review - Side 4871817Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 sider
...fed, flies tow'ard the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams ; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light: So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend 449 Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey; Alone, for... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 sider
...fed, flies tow'rd the springs 435 Of Ganges of Hydaspes, Indian streams ; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light : So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend 440 Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey : Alone ;... | |
 | Sir George Staunton - 1797 - 412 sider
...borders of the Pei-ho ; for Milton mentions-1• ;.l, , , . '., 4 ; i ':':.',,.. ''"'•>.• " The barren plains " Of Sericana, where Chineses drive " With sails and wind their cany waggons light." \ K • •.. Those cany waggons are small carts, or double barrows, of bamboo, with one large wheel... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 sider
...flies tow'ard the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams : 436 But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light : So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend 440 Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey ; Alone, for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 sider
...CA'NY. adj. [from саяс.~\ i . Full of canee. a. Consisting of canes. But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive, With sails and wind, their cany waggons light. " Miiton. CA'SZONET. nt [canxonctta, Ital.] A little song; Vecchi wa« most pleasing of all others,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sider
...tow'ard the spring Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams, 43* But in his way lights on the harren plaint Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light: So on this windy sea of land the Fiend 441 Walk'd up and down alone bent on his prey; Alone, for other... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 sider
...flocks are fed, flies to the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes Indian streams, But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive. With sails and wind, their cany waggons light ; So, on this windy sea of land, the fiend Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey. The objects... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 sider
...are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses -drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light.: So, on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey; Alone, for other... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 sider
...flies tow'ard the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspcs, Indian streams ; 436 But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light: So, on this windy sea of land, the fiend 440 Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey; , Alone, for... | |
 | John Adams - 1816 - 352 sider
...probably observed in parts less fertile than the borders of the Pei-ho ; for Milton mentions — " The barren plains " Of Sericana, where Chineses drive " With sails and wind their cany waggons light." Those cany waggons are small carts, or double lia'rj rows, of bamboo, with one large wheel between... | |
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