 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 էջ
...found among the ancient writers, notj witstanding their great partiality to this bird. The s wait, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with wary feet. I find by an act of Edw. IV. c. 6. " no one, possessing a freehold of less clear yearly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 էջ
...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 heauty ; so... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1810 - 548 էջ
...notice of it; but none with that justness of description and in so picturesque a manner as our Milton. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet— /"an Lest,. Book vii. In ancient times it was served up at every great feast, •when the elegance... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 էջ
...30.) that Milton in his justly admired description of the swan, had a passage of Donne in his eye: the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling +, proudly rows Her state with oary feet. Milton. The jealous swan, there swimming in his pride, With his arch'd breast the waters did divide,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 էջ
...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts; 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, tow'r The mid aerial sky: others on ground... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 էջ
...mnofiyj is state," to be understood in the description of the fiwan in the /th book of Paradise Lost: The swan with arched neck Between her white wings...mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet.— ue. the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her •bite wings, proudly rows her canopy,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 էջ
...canopy,) is state," to be understood in the description of the swan in the 7th book of Paradise Lost: The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her stale with oary feet. — ie the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her white wings, proudly... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 390 էջ
..." ' • . '• .A '. ri • ,'. -.. -. . if '.,', .• .'• ) S1 Milton says finely of the Sican,. The Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly ROWS HER STATE-— I should think he might probably have that line of Fletcher in his head, How like a Swan she SWIMS... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 էջ
...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 440 The dank, and. rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky: others on... | |
 | 1817 - 494 էջ
...warbling, 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 aereal sky. others on ground... | |
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Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet... 
