 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...almost any found among the ancient writers, not-- \vitstunding their great partiality to this bird. The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with wary feet. I find by an act of Edw. IV. c. 6. " no one, possessing a freehold of less clear yearly... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...canopy,') is stale," to be understood in the description of the swan in the ~th book of Paradise Lost : The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with pary feet. — ie the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her white wings, proudly rows... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...found among the ancient writers, notj witstanding their great partiality to this bird. The s wait, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with wary feet. I find by an act of Edw. IV. c. 6. " no one, possessing a freehold of less clear yearly... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...warbling, but all night tun'd her' soft lays : ' Others on silver lakes and rivets bath'd ..'•'•" , Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly ion Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 440 The dank, and rising on stiff peuons, tower The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...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 heauty ; so... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings...oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tow'r The mid aerial sky: others on ground Walk'd firm; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds The... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 pages
...30.) that Milton in his justly admired description of the swan, had a passage of Donne in his eye: the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling +, proudly rows Her state with oary feet. Milton. The jealous swan, there swimming in his pride, With his arch'd breast the waters did divide,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1810 - 548 pages
...notice of it; but none with that justness of description and in so picturesque a manner as our Milton. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet— /"an Lest,. Book vii. In ancient times it was served up at every great feast, •when the elegance... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...mnofiyj is state," to be understood in the description of the fiwan in the /th book of Paradise Lost: The swan with arched neck Between her white wings...mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet.— ue. the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her •bite wings, proudly rows her canopy,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...Their downy breast ; the swan, with trclml neck, [rows Between her white wings mantling proudly, ! Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stifl' pinions, toirtr The mid aerial sky: others on gromid ! Walk'd firmly: the crested cock, whose... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
