| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...nightingale 455 Ceas'd 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...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 [sounds Walk'd... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...thousand precious moments in vain words, And vainer fears. Byron's Sardanapalus, a. 1, s. 2. SWAN. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 7. And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd wixen Middelburgh and Orewell. Wel coud he in eschanges sheldes selle. This worthy man ful wel his Mate with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 páginas
...near her highest noon. And in his sonnets, the first is address'd To the nightingale. BOOK VII. 41 Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 4*0 The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : Others on ground Walk'd firm... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 páginas
...with, arched neck] The ancient poets have not hit upon this beauty, so lavish as they hare been in 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 aereal sky : Others on ground Walk'd firm... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast; the swan, with arehed neek, aereal sky : others on ground Walk'd firm : the erested eoek, whose elarion sounds The silent hours,... | |
| 1820 - 406 páginas
...touches of the poet's own, of the above passage in Glover, and that in Milton on this favoured bird : " The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet." Seventh Booh, Par. Lost. With all his train. Th' enclosure, which begirds The holy purlieus, through... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 318 páginas
...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...with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling prondly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 440 The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons,... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 páginas
...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 páginas
...song 433 Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays...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... | |
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