...nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and...branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend aereal sky : others on ground Walk'd firm ; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours,...

...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...

...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...

...; Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Eelvvcen her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 445 The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower 'I he mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walk'd firm...

...nightingale 440 Ceas'd warbling, 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...proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit 445 The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walk'dfirm;...

...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...

...the skies. DARWIN ". ORDER VI.— Others on silver lakes and rivers bathe Their downy breast : — yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky. The birds belonging to this order have very strongly or conspicuously webbed feet, and...

...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...

...woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warhling, hut all night tuned her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, hathed Their downy hreast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows...

...with song Solace the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even, nor then the solemn Nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays...they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, Cower The mid aerial sky: others on ground Walked firm; the crested Cock whose clarion sounds The silent...