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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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Recreations of Christopher North

John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pages
...therefore the poet speaks of them, not as relieved from misery, but as visited with gladness — " Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak...sign, to strike, at once, Into the general choir." Then, and not till then, the humane poet bethinks him of the insensate earth — insensate not ; for...
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The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier, Volume 10

John Wilson - 1857 - 462 pages
...therefore the poet speaks of them, not as relieved from misery, but as visited with gladness — " Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture pickling off, And wait th' approaching sign, to strike, at once, Into the general choir." Then, and...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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 once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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 once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,...
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Poets of England and America; being selections from the best authors of both ...

England - 1860 - 532 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...approaching sign to strike at once Into the general choir. E'en mountains, vales, And forests, seem impatient to demand The promised sweetness. Man superior walks...
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Poetical Works of Thomson and Gray

James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...sprig, and mute-imploring eye Thft falling vprrlnrp. Hush'd in short suspense, The jilumy_peogle-tstreak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture...vales, And forests seem, impatient, to demand The promised sweetness. Man superior walks Amid the glad creation, musing graiseT' 170 AnilliiiiliJMjVliiiilj...
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The seasons, Britannia, and The castle of indolence

James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...'Tis silent all, Andpleasing expectation. Herds and flocka Drop the dry sprig, and, mute imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense,...approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. E'en mountains, vales, And forests, seem, impatient, to demand The promis'd sweetness. Man superior...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 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 once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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. Even mountains, vales, And forests seem,...
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The Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

John Wilson - 1864 - 334 pages
...lln-h'd in short suspense. The plumy people streak their winga with oil. To throw the lucid mouture trickling off, And wait th' approaching sign, to strike, at once, Into the general choir." Then, and not till then, the humane poet bethinks him of the insensate earth — insensate not; for...
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