 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 5059 Thomson : Seasons. Autumn. Line 836, SWANS. arche(} neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. 5060 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vii. Line 438. The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 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...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... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 766 pages
...PL i. 78. KEATS1 There saw the swan his neck of arched snow, And oar'd himself along with majesty. The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oaryfeet. Far different cares Beckon me sternly from soft "Lydian airs." And Lydian airs. And ever,... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 pages
...Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on Silver Lakes and Rivers Bath'd Thir downy Breast; the Swan with Arched neck Between her...oft they quit The Dank, and rising on stiff Pennons, tow'r The mid Aereal Sky: Others on ground Walk'd firm; the crested Cock whose clarion sounds The silent... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 354 pages
...beautiful since they left Paradise. Let me read however three or four verses in order to offer a remark. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy...quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower, &c. Frequently as the great poet pauses at the ninth syllable, it is incredible that he should have... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 pages
...PL i. 78. KEATS1 There saw the swan his neck of arched snow, And oar'd himself along with majesty. The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feel. Far different cares Beckon me sternly from soft "Lydian airs." And Lydian airs. And ever, against... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings, Till even; nor then the solemn nightingal Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays....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,... | |
 | 1903 - 1096 pages
...attracted the attention of Shakespeare. It is worth noting that while the swan, which With arched neclt, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet, so often and so exquisitely referred to by Milton, and the ' wakeful nightingale,' an equal favourite... | |
 | 1835 - 1076 pages
...flexibility, as any one who has seen a swan in the act of swimming will, with Milton, readily admit: " The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet." — Paradise Lost, b. vii. The greatest bulk of the body is around the breast, tapering towards the... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
