| 1829 - 494 דפים
...levels with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky ; Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous Lapwings feel the leaden...prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. POPE. Buffon, with his usual sagacity, observes that this bird held a place between fish and fowl,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 דפים
...levels with hii eye : Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, a« in airy rings they skim th falsehoods is my honour stain'd, 1ь heaven offended, and a priest monnting larks their notes prepare« They fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 דפים
...levels with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft as the mounung larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring,... | |
| 1831 - 412 דפים
...levels with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft as in airy rings they skim the heath The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death...prepare. They fall, and leave their little lives in air! The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand. With looks unmoved,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 דפים
...with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky. 130 Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden...prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. 134 In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead, The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 דפים
...levels with his eye : Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in airy rings they skim spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 דפים
...levels with his eye : Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 דפים
...levels with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in airy rings they skim osed through crystal to the gazing eyes, And heighten'd...ever blaze ! Sooner shall grass in Hyde-park Circ spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
| John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 דפים
...airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death ; i'li. as the mountain larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air." % The last line is an imitation of Virgil's line : " Prcecipitcs altA vitam snb nnbe relinquunt." According... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 דפים
...levels with his eye : Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft as in airy rings they skim the heath The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death...prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air ! Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual mental power ascends : Mark how it mounts... | |
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