 | 1800 - 322 Seiten
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays: Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tow'r The mid aerial sky : others on ground... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 Seiten
...but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others OB silver lakes and rivers bath'd * Their dowtiy breast; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet : yet oft they quit + The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : Others on ground... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 Seiten
...imaginable : the eye wanders over every part with pleasure, and every part takes new grace with new motion. The Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state wit h oary feet. The Swan will swim faster than a man can walk ; it is however but an inelegant figure... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 Seiten
...From MILTON. Par. Lost, vii. 4.37Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their down ц breasts ; the swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. " And sidelong winds blow on her ruffled wing." In the first editions, " when slow she sails the lake,... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 Seiten
...Fingal, iv. From Par. Lost, vii. 437. Others, on-silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Their downy brcatt ; the swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. SPECIMEN OF THE ORIGINAL OF TEMORA. BOOK VII. ADVERTISEMENT. It is thought proper to give a specimen... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 Seiten
...Fingal, iv. From Par. Lost, vii. 437. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary teet. SPECIMEN OF THE I ORIGINAL OF TEMORA. BOOK VII. ADVERTISEMENT. It is thought proper to give a... | |
 | 1806 - 330 Seiten
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tow"r The mid aerial sky : others on ground... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 Seiten
...canopy,') is stale," to be understood in the description of the swan in the ~th book of Paradise Lost : The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with pary feet. — ie the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her white wings, proudly rows... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 Seiten
...almost any found among the ancient writers, not-- \vitstunding their great partiality to this bird. The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with wary feet. I find by an act of Edw. IV. c. 6. " no one, possessing a freehold of less clear yearly... | |
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...night tun'd her soft lays. Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast ; the swati, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The bank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky : Others on ground... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
