 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 страници
...so that scarce The bittern knows his time with bill ingulpht To shake the sounding marsh, or fioin the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the list'ning waste." Thomson is the best of our descriptive poets : for he gives most of the poetry of... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 страници
...wounds th' unresisting postern with these strokes. Shakspeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV. Sc. C. - — Or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath. And sing their wild notes to the list'ning waste, Speaking of a man's hand cut off in battle : Te decisa sinnn, Laride, dextera querit:... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 страници
...wounds th' unresisting postern with these strokes. Skakspeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV. Sc. 6. — Or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, A nd sing their wild notes to the list'ning waste, Speaking of a man's hand cut off in battle ; To... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 страници
...!b shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore fbe plover* when to scatter o'er the heath, led mng h, o'er each object casting various dyes, Enlarges some, and others multiplies : Nor uxl the bright Bull receives him. Then no more TV expansive atmosphere is cramp'd with cold ; But,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 страници
...driving sleets Deform the day delightless; so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulft To shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore, The...cramp'd with cold ; But full of life and vivifying soul, Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin. Fleecy and white, o'er all surrounding... | |
 | 1822 - 278 страници
...sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulf 'd To shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore The...cramp'd with cold; But, full of life and vivifying soul, Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin, Fleecy, and white, o'er all-surrounding... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 страници
...driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows bis time, with bill ingulfd, To shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore The...And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. 8 SPRING. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous snn, And tbe bright Bull receives him. Then no more... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 страници
...driving sleets Deform the day delightless; so that scarce The bittern knows his time with bill ingulpht To shake the sounding marsh, or from the shore The...scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the list'ning waste." "--*—— Breathed hot From all the boundless furnace of the sky, And the wide-glitt'ring... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 страници
...that scarce The bittern knows bis time, with hill ingulfed To shake the sounding marsh ; or, from t he shore, The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath,...sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more Th' expansive atmosphere is cramp'd with cold; But, full of life and vivifying soul, Lifts the light... | |
 | George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 страници
...astronomy. The poet Thomson, though perfectly well convinced of the annual motion of the earth, says — At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. . . ... .. - - *. And Baker, in his elegant and truly philosophical poem, entitled the " Universe,"... | |
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And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill engulf'd To shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore The plovers when to... 
