| 1848 - 530 pages
...the hills. At last, of snowy white, the gather'd flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous press'd, Head above head : and, ranged in lusty rows, The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears." The boldness and agility with which the sheep of the Welsh mountains leap from crag to crag,... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...hills. At last, of snowy white, the gather'd floeks Are in the wattled pen innumerous press'd, 895 Head above head: and, ranged in lusty rows, The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleeey stores, With all her gay-dress'd maids attending round.... | |
| James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...hills. At last, of snowy white, the gather'd floeks Are in the wattled pen inuumerous press'd, 895 Head above head : and, ranged in lusty rows, The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleeey stores, With all her gay-dress'd maids attending round.... | |
| 1851 - 496 pages
...Incessant bleatings At last, of snowy white, the gather'd flocks Are in tho wattled pen innumerous press'd, Head above head : and, ranged in lusty rows, The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gny-dress'd maids attending round.... | |
| James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 pages
...the hills. At last, of snowy white, the gather'd flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous press'd, Head above head : and ranged in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gay-drest maids attending round.... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...with a degree of ceremony and rural dignity, and is a kind of festival, as well as a piece of labour. At last, of snowy white, the gathered flocks Are in the wattled pen innnmerous press'd, Head above head, and ranged in lusty rows : The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...of labour. At last, of snowy white, the gather'd flocks Are in the wattled pen innum'rous press'd, Head above head : and, ranged in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gay-drest maids attending round.... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...At last, of snowy white, the gather'd flocks Are in the wattled pen innum'rous press'd, Head nbovo head : and, ranged in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gay-drest maids attending round.... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...bleatings ran around the hills. rn t >:i-6M r 1 111X1. ; MARKING SHEEP j THE INDIGNANT RAM. — GENTLENESS. At last, of snowy white, the gathered flocks Are in...lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gay-dressed maids attending round.... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...Incessant bleatings run around the hills. ÍHEARISG ¡ MARKING SHEF.P ; THE INDIGNANT RAM. — GENTLENESS. At last, of snowy white, the gathered flocks Are in the wattled pen, innnmerous, pressed, Head above head : and ranged in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding... | |
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