 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 halaman
...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 her white wings mantling proudly rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pinions, tower The mid aerial sky : Others... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 halaman
...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 her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state2 with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 halaman
...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 her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state2 with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal... | |
 | John Stoddart - 1854 - 340 halaman
...in Milton's text. Thus the great poet, in his picturesque description of creation, had written — The swan, with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. On which Dr. Bentley has the following note : " The swan, her white wings ! and her state... | |
 | 1854 - 128 halaman
...with oary feet, Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young. MILTON. HE Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly rows Her state with oary feet. THE EAGLE. GRAHAME. MID Lochaber's wilds, or dark Glencoe, High up the pillared mountain's... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 halaman
...but all night tuned her soft lays : Others, oa silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky : others... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 halaman
...but all night tuned her soft lays. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. Others... | |
 | Creative week - 1856 - 414 halaman
...but all night tuned her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky : others... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 372 halaman
...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... | |
 | British birds - 1857 - 324 halaman
...birds, and is so well known, that description of it is unnecessary. Milton sings of it thus : — . the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state, with oary feet." .... There is a passage in Mr. Jesse's " Gleanings in Natural History," which is interesting,... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
