 | William Beloe - 1817 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bathed Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...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 her white wings 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... | |
 | sir Thomas Hugh Constable (1st bart.) - 1817 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1818 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 614 pages
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bathed Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet;* yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky ; others on ground"... | |
 | 1820 - 404 pages
...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 oar-y feet." Seventh Book, Par. Lost. With all his train. TV enclosure, which begirds The holy purlieus, through... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...touches of the poet's own, of the above passage in Glover, and that in Milton on this favoured bird : e " The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet." Paradise Lost. Book VII. With all his train. Th' enclosure, which begirds The holy purlieus, through... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...must not think me infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's imitations : " The swan with arched neck " Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows " Her state with oary feet." Book VII. v. 438, &c. " The ancient poets, says ,Mr. Richardson, have not hit upon this beauty ; so... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pages
...infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's imitations : " The swan tvith arched neck " Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows " Her state with oary feet." Book VII. v. 438, &c. " The ancient poets, says Mr. Richardson, have not hit upon this beauty ; so... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
