...their painted wings Till ev'n, nor then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers...The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky ; others on ground" Walk'd firm ; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds * The silent hours,...

...nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and...as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody th Walk'd firm ; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours, and the other whose gay train...

...touches of the poet's own, of the above passage in Glover, and that in Milton on this favoured bird : " The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oar-y feet." Seventh Book, Par. Lost. With all his train. TV enclosure, which begirds The holy purlieus, through...

...touches of the poet's own, of the above passage in Glover, and that in Milton on this favoured bird : e " The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet." Paradise Lost. Book VII. With all his train. Th' enclosure, which begirds The holy purlieus, through...

...; Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Eelvvcen her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 445 The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower 'I he mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walk'd firm...

...nightingale 440 Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays; Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast; the swan, with arched neck Between...proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit 445 The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walk'dfirm;...

...must not think me infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's imitations : " The swan with arched neck " Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows " Her state with oary feet." Book VII. v. 438, &c. " The ancient poets, says ,Mr. Richardson, have not hit upon this beauty ; so...

...infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's imitations : " The swan tvith arched neck " Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows " Her state with oary feet." Book VII. v. 438, &c. " The ancient poets, says Mr. Richardson, have not hit upon this beauty ; so...

...branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even : nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all...dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others on ground Walk'd firm ; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours,...

...woods, and spread their painted wings Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warhling, hut all night tuned her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, hathed Their downy hreast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows...