 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 sider
...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky: others on ground Walk'd firm ; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds The silent hours... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 sider
...nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Walk'd firm ; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours, and the other whose gay train... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sider
...nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd m he liv'd in pain. And measur'd back his steps to oory feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others... | |
 | George Willson - 1844 - 300 sider
...song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale 3 Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays...; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff penons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walked firm ; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 sider
...weighed." T. II. Sheppard. " The swan with arched neck Between its white wings mantling ; proudly rows In state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons The mid aerial sky." They have always been held in much esteem. By an act of Edward IV. none except... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 654 sider
...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...rivers, bathed Their downy breast ; the swan, with arehed neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 358 sider
...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays." Paradise Lost, vii. 433-436. Cf. II Penseroso, 61-64. Comus, 234, 235 ; 566, 567. The following from... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 466 sider
...with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even; nor then the solemn nightingal Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays....arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, TOWS 439 Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 476 sider
...with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even; nor then the solemn nightingal Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays....rivers, bathed Their downy breast; the swan, with arcbtd neck Between her white wings mantling proudlr, TOWS 4]9 Her state with oary feet; yet oft they... | |
 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - 1900 - 264 sider
...companions, though they feel it quite beneath their dignity to join in their amusements. Then " This swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet " to the other end of the lake to see why the peewit is crying so in the air. Perhaps his snow-white... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
