 Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their wat'ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return. Not one who heard their music from afar, Would think these troops...  Illustrations of Euripides, on the Ion and the Bacchae - Sida 65efter Richard Paul Jodrell - 1781Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Homer - 1796 - 416 sidor
...canoros " Dant per colla modos, fonat a amis & Afia longe " Pulfa palus" Like a long team of fnowy fwans on high, Which clap their wings and cleave the liquid fky. When homeward from their watry paftures born, They fmg, and Afia's lakes their notes return, • Now tow'r aloft, and courfe in airy rounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 sidor
...clays they may plow one acre of wheat with a team of horse. Mortimer. 9. Any number passing in a line. Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which, clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky. /'•_•.//!. TEAR. «. /. [ea in this word is pronounced re ; Te.'ji, Saxon ; taare, Danish... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 sidor
...till Fescennian or Flavinian lands : All these in order march, and marching sing The warlike actions of their sea-born king ; Like a long team of snowy...high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their watery pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 sidor
...till Fescennian or Flavinian lands : All these in order march, and marching sing The warlike actions of their sea-born king ; Like a long team of snowy...high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their watery pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 sidor
...All these in order inarch, and marching sing The warlike actions of their sea-born king. Xike a lung; team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, Which homeward from their watery pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | Virgil - 1819 - 404 sidor
...till Fescennian or Flavinian lands : All these in order march, and marching sing The warlike actions of their sea-born king ; Like a long team of snowy...high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their wat'ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 sidor
...till Fescennian or Flavinian lands : All these in order march, and marching sing The warlike actions of their sea-born king; Like a long team of snowy...high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their watery pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 sidor
...till Fescennian or Flavinian lands : All these in order march, and marching sing The warlike actions of their seaborn king; Like a long team of snowy swans...high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their watery pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 sidor
...in pain their well-fed hungry eyes. Sidney, And wandering homeward», seek our safety hence. Dryden. Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid eky, Which, homeward from their watery pastures borne. They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 sidor
...order march, and marching sing The warlike actions of their sea-bom king i 154 VIRGIL'S &NEIS. 155 Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their wat'ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return.... | |
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