 Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...  Le paradis perdu - Sida 112efter John Milton - 1837 - 495 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 332 sidor
...The young swan is restless and uneasy until she finds the element she has never before seen. Then, "With arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet." What a wretched failure was that of Haydon the painter. He thought he failed through the world's ingratitude... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 772 sidor
...choicest notes in bush and spray, To gratulate the sweet return of morn. MILTON. From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till ev'n. MILTON. I saw a pleasant grove, With chant of tuneful birds resounding love. MILTON. Sweet is... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 625 sidor
...borne on winds : the air Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes. From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread...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 - 299 sidor
...She all night long her amorous descant sung." Paradise Lost, vi. 598-603. " From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread...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 - 417 sidor
...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 - 417 sidor
...their painted Till even; nor then the solemn nightingal Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her wings, soft lays. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed...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 - 417 sidor
...the lir Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes. From branch to branch the smaller bitdi 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. Others, on silver lakes and rivers,... | |
 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - 1900 - 232 sidor
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1902
...borne on winds ; the air Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes. From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread...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... | |
 | Mary Cowden Clarke - 1902 - 345 sidor
...grassy lawns, crowned with trees and grouped with herds of deer; the broad sheet of water, on which a swan " with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet," — all combine to form one of those perfect spots which perhaps only people like ourselves, with arduous... | |
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