...canopy,) is state," to be understood in the description of the swan in the 7th book of Paradise Lost: The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her stale with oary feet. — ie the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her white wings, proudly...

...pats, faiiu'd with umiumrrM plumes: [sonj I 'i '.mi branch to branch the smaller hirds willi i Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wings '• Till even, nor then the solemn nijjhtmrde , Ceub'd warbling, hut all night tun'd lier sufl lays: | Others on silver lakes and rivers...

..." ' • . '• .A '. ri • ,'. -.. -. . if '.,', .• .'• ) S1 Milton says finely of the Sican,. The Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly ROWS HER STATE-— I should think he might probably have that line of Fletcher in his head, How like a Swan she SWIMS...

...nightingale 435 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...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...

...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 The dank, and rising on -.till' pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walked...

...nightingale 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...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 Walk'd...

...fragrance of myrrh, and other aromatic shrubs. One One more resemblance shall suffice. Book VII. v. 438. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. SILIUS ITALICUS, XIV. 190. Hand seeus Eridani stagnis ripave Caystri Innatat albus olor, pronoque immobile...

...This noble bird abounds on the rivers Trent and Sow, and the navigable canal before Tixall. — — with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet. — Par. Lost. b. 5. Each proprietor of the river has a certain number of swans belonging to him, which...

...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 their painted wings Till ev'n, and then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays : Others on...

...must therefore be from the other species which the poets formed their fable of the music of the swan. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oaiy feet /*«/'. Lost. B. Vlf. But we cannot help thinking that he had here an eye to that beautiful...