 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
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824
...they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solace the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even,...mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, Cower The mid aerial sky: others on ground Walked... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 131 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1824
...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 - 822 sidor
...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
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...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... | |
 | 1820
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 562 sidor
...soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast; the swan, with arehed neek, oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others on ground Walk'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 294 sidor
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 294 sidor
...borne on winds ; the air Floats as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread...wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale 435 Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed... | |
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