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" In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse • Forgetful of their course. Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak... "
Le stagioni - Page 46
by James Thomson - 1826 - 412 pages
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed NES. ' It is not Sir William Jones's poetry,' «ays...that can perpetuate his name.' This is true : it w the approaching sign, to strike at once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, raute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed u x @ . the approaching sign, to strike at once Into the general choir. Even mountains, valen, And forests,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 23

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 634 pages
...which, by the force of language, a flock of geese are made highly poetical objects : 1 Hushed in abort suspense The plumy people streak their wings with...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign to strike at once Into the genera] choir.' The poet indeed must give us a lively...
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The seasons, ed. with notes by A.T. Thomson

James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...delusive lapse 160 Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, * The value of storms is too little appreciated ; for, independent of their advantage to agriculture, they...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson: Comprising All His Pastoral, Dramatic ...

James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...lapse 160 Forgetful of their eourse. T is silenee all, And pleasing expeetation. Herds and floeks I)rop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling...suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, 165 To throw the lueid moisture triekling off; And wait the' approaehing sign to strike, at onee, Into...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson

James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...lapse 160 Forgetful of their eourse. 'T is silenee all, And pleasing expeetation. Herds and floeks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling...suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, 165 To throw the lueid moisture triekling off; And wait the' approaehing sign to strike, at onee, Into...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks • Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The /idling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off: And wait the approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. E'en mountains, vales, And forests,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign, to strike at onco Into the general choiT. Even mountains, vales, And forests,...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...delusive lapse Forgetful of their course. T is silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait the' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Ev'n mountains, vales, And forests...
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Thomson's Poetical Works

James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 pages
...delusive lapse 1eo Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring, eye The falling...approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests seem, impatient, to demand The promis'd sweetness. Man superior...
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