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 46by James Thomson - 1826 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...delusive lapse ico 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... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed d for their little опез provide — Bat chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. Fro the approaching sign, to strike at once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,... | |
| John Bascom - 1874 - 348 pages
...followed by a feeble dressing up of homely things in poetic verbiage, like the following : " Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings...with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off." f Or this : " Urged to the giddy brink, much is the toil, The clamour much, of men and boys and dogs,... | |
| Bombay city, univ - 1874 - 648 pages
...amusive, libration, effulged, corse. 9. Explain : — 8 (a.) All Is off the poise within. (t.) Tho plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off. (c.) Now to the verdant portico of woods, To Nature's vast Lyceum forth they walk. ((!.) The rod fine... | |
| Isaac Plant Fleming - 1875 - 382 pages
...[NB A verbal analysis is not required.] 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling...Into the general choir. Ev'n mountains, vales, And forest seem, impatient, to demand The promised sweetness. 2. Parse the words to which numbers are prefixed... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pages
...expeetation. Herds and floeks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lueid moisture triekling off, And wait the approaehing sign, to strike at onee Into the general ehoir.... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...delusive lapse Forgetful of their course. Tis silence all. And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks op descends the mystic Dove Ve Heavens! from high...soft silence shed the kindly shower! The sick and we uil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign to strike, at once Into... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 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... | |
| New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure.5 Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people 6 streak their wings with oil, 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The fallen 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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