| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 páginas
...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... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 páginas
...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... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 páginas
...his eye : Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft at in airy rings they skim the healli The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death ; Oft...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 páginas
...a short thunder breaks the frozen sky: 130 Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft, as the mounting...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, 135 Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...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 - 1848 - 642 páginas
...short thunder hreaks the frozen sky: Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lap wings feel the leaden death ; Oft, as the mounting larks...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, heneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours hreathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...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... | |
| Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 628 páginas
...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. The following anecdote, from Bewick's History of Birds, exhibits the domestic nature of the Lapwing,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 páginas
...a short thunder breaks the frozen sky: Oft, as in airy rings they skim the hciih, • The chmorous lapwings feel the leaden death ; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, Tij«-y fa!!, and leave their little lives in air, In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where... | |
| 1851 - 496 páginas
...Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death ; Oft as the mounting...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
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