 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 sider
...song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale 435 Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays...bathed Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit 440 The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid... | |
 | 1827 - 264 sider
...branch the smaller birds with song 433 Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower 441 The mid aereal sky : Others on ground Walked firm; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 sider
...branch the smaller hirds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff peunons, tower Phe mid aerial sky : others on ground Walk'd firm; the crested cuck whose clarion sounds... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 sider
...warhling, hut all night tun'd her soft lays. Others on silver lakes and rivers hath'd Tlieir downy hreast; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings...pennons, tower The mid aereal sky. Others on ground " Walk'd firm ; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds The silent hours, and th' other whose gay train... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 sider
...which in the outward ends of them shall be like the fins of a fish to contract and dilate. Witkira. The swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet. Hilton. In shipping such as this, the Irish kern And untaught Indian, on the stream did glide, K'er... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 sider
...imaginable: the eye wanders over every part with pleasure, and every part takes new grace with new postures. The Swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet. She exhibits, however, but an inelegant appearance on land. This bird is able to swim faster than a... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 sider
...soft lays : Others, ou silver lakes and rivers, hathed Their downy hreast ; the swan with arehed neek, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet oft they qnii The dank, and, rising on stiff peanoua, tower The mid aerial sky : others on groond Walk'd firm... | |
 | 1848 - 700 sider
...enabled me in a very short time to gain a concealed position within forty yards of the spot, where "The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet." Not one however, but dozens, were sailing about with the majestic air peculiar to this beautiful bird.... | |
 | 1832 - 542 sider
...slow movement," and indeed, you are constantly reminded by it of those exquisite lines of Milton — " The swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet." True it is that "silent now rows Adrian's gondolier," but we cannot add " and pity 'tis, 'tis true,"... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - 342 sider
...much more heightened than by the ' contemplation of the structure of the most gigantic ' animals.' ' The swan, with arched neck ' Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows ' Her state with oary feet.' MILTON. LIVING on the banks of the Thames, I have often been pleased with seeing the care taken of... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
