 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 892 էջ
...impious eagemeu began the war, Some more than common punishment prepare. Rove. Lucan. Phanalia, book vii. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Gray. Ode on the Spring. There is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue, as that of some uncommon and grievous... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 էջ
...peopled air The busy murmur glows ! 1 The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed2 spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's3 soher eye, Such is the... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 էջ
...Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled aii The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 280 էջ
...over many parts of the mountain. Fig. 46.— LERN.SA IWKi.VIKIKII). 64 CLASS V.— INSECTS. INSECTA. " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun." — GRAY. THE word insect is derived from... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 448 էջ
...Already, — for it is Spring far advanced, — the air is becoming peopled with insect tribes — " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon." A thousand times ten thousand, nay, thousands of thousands, are already in the air; and the low hum... | |
 | 1850 - 454 էջ
...How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care Tin' panting herds repose ! Yet hark, how through the peopled...The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their... | |
 | 1850 - 494 էջ
...How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great 1 Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose ! Yet hark, how through the peopled...The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 էջ
...How low, how little, are the proud, How indigent the great. Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose, Yet, hark ! how, through the...liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | 1851 - 808 էջ
...llistoric.il Biography. By William Hepworth Dixon. London : Chapman and Hall. 1851. €JJB 3ns?rt flrihra. ' The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun.' — QUAY. OCCASIONALLY, some fact is desirable... | |
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The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. 
