 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - 1900 - 232 pages
...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
...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...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 Walked firm... | |
 | Mary Cowden Clarke - 1902 - 339 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1903
...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...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 Walked firm... | |
 | George Burridge Viles - 1903 - 127 pages
...Ueppigkeit herrschete, brüllet en Meerwunder, und warfen Junge. PARTICIPIAL PHRASE. 22. M. VII, 438-40. the swan, with arched neck | Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows | Her state with oary feet: B. 313, 20-2. der Schwan mit dem schwankgebogenen Halse zwischen den weissen Flügeln, prächtig bekleidet,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 358 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. — B. 7. V. 438, &c. " The ancient Poets," says Mr. Richardson, " have not hit upon this beauty ;... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 358 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.—B. 7. V. 438, &c. " The ancient Poets," says Mr. Richardson, " have not hit upon this beauty... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 358 pages
...me infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's Imitations : The Swan wsth arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. — B. 7. V. 438, &c. " The ancient Poets," says Mr. Richardson, " have not hit upon this beauty ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1904
...branch the smaller birds with song * Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...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 Walked firm... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 464 pages
...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walked firm—the crested cock, whose clarion sounds The silent hours,... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
