 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast: the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet: yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...many beams twisted themselves, Upon whose golden threads the angeli walk To and again from heaven. — You must not think me infected with the spirit of...you another of Milton's imitations : ..... The swan nith arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, ro»i Her state with oary feel. Book VII.... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...thousand precious moments in vain words, And vainer fears. Byron's Sardanapalus, a. 1, s. 2. SWAN. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 7. And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bathed Their downy breast : the Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, Cower The mid aerial sky: others on ground... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 her white wings mantling 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast ; Orewell. Wel coud he in eschanges sheldes selle. This worthy man ful wel his Mate with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...with, arched neck] The ancient poets have not hit upon this beauty, so lavish as they hare been in Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 440 The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : Others on... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...near her highest noon. And in his sonnets, the first is address'd To the nightingale. BOOK VII. 41 Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 4*0 The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : Others on... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...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 oary feet." Seventh Booh, Par. Lost. With all his train. Th' enclosure, which begirds The holy purlieus, through... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast; the swan, with arehed neek, ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others on ground... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
