 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 Seiten
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : 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 feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pinions, tower The mid aerial sky : Others on ground... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 Seiten
...but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state2 with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 Seiten
...but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Their downy breast; the swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state2 with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 376 Seiten
...along, and as he glided watch'd, And with his arched neck this poor fish catch'd, It mov'd with state.' Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet: yet oft they quit 440 The dank, and rising on stiff pennons tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground... | |
 | John Stoddart - 1854 - 340 Seiten
...in Milton's text. Thus the great poet, in his picturesque description of creation, had written — The swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. On which Dr. Bentley has the following note : " The swan, her white wings ! and her state ! I wonder... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 Seiten
...soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood, i. HEINE — Early Poems. Evening Songs. No. 3. sing by tarns, by turns the Musée Now hawthorns blossom. i. POPE— Spring. Line 41. Gives not th / MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. Vu. Line 438. The white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the... | |
 | 1882 - 876 Seiten
...as compared with the mythical bird, may be almost said to be neglected. Milton's admirable lines— The swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet, awakens innumerable echoes all down the aisles of poesy; and the stereotyped phrase for compliment... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 554 Seiten
...verses in order to offer a remark : — Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy 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, &c. Frequently, as the great poet pauses... | |
 | Henry Weston Eve, Arthur Sidgwick, Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1883 - 114 Seiten
...night tuned her soft lays.il Others, || on silver lakes and rivers, | bathed Their downy 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 with stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. || which... | |
 | 1883 - 270 Seiten
...but all night tuned her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed 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, 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... 
