 | 1805 - 422 pages
...sport thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course I view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue!...snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare lUub swift beneath his paws; Sh. 182 She flies, he stretches, now with nimble bound > Eager lie presses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...contrived as to map the hands of any of the female sex, who are not thus qua* lifi«l. AJdum. Me inapt deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws. Gay. 4. To catch suddenly and unexpectedly. Sir Richard Graham tells the marquis he would map one of... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pages
...thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. 290 With what delight the rapid course I view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue!...snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darU swift beneath his paws: She flies, he stretches : now with nimble bound 295 Eager he presses ou,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...sports thy bosom glow, tat ihy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course -xo - `o - goary mouth thescreaming prey. What various sjxm'docs rural life afford ! What unbought dainties heap... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course I view! How does my eye the circling race pursue 5 He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws ; The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flies, she stretches, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground: She turns, he... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...sports thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course false world in early youth they Hed, By thee to mountains,...and deserts led. You rais'd these hallow 'd walls j She turns, he winds, and soon regains the way, Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey. What... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 364 pages
...sports thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course I view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue...with empty jaws ; The subtle hare darts swift beneath Us paws ; She flies, he stretches, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...spores thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course I view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue...subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flies, she streches, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground ; She turns, he... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...what delight the rapid eourse I view ! How does my eye the eireling raee pursue ! He snaps deeeitful air with empty jaws ; The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flies, she stretehes, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots hia ground ; She turns, he... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 pages
...sport thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course 1 view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue! He...She turns, he winds, and soon regains the way, Then team with gory mouth the screaming prey. What various sport does rural life afford ! What unbought... | |
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With what delight the rapid course I view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue ! He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flies, he stretches, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots... 
