 | The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 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." Now one would imagine that the tube of the fowler was a telescope instead of a gun. And think of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 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...prepare, "'They fall, and leave their little lives in air.1 In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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 quivering shn.dc, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 páginas
...as in airy rings they skim the heath, THE CARAVAN IN THE DESERT. 91 ai i J qL z a H H o E a! K ai X The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death ; Oft as the mounting larks their holes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. Where cooling vapours breathe along... | |
 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 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 sportsman is a great friend to birds, incredible as it may appear in the eyes of those who... | |
 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 páginas
...levels with his eye; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in niry rings they skim the heath, The clamorous Lapwings feel the leaden...prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air." 1'OI'E. THE sportsman is a great friend to birds, incredible as it may appear in the eyes of those... | |
 | 1876 - 326 páginas
...levels with his eye; Strait 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 vapors breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 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." Now one would imagine that the tube of the fowler was a telescope instead of a gun. Arid think of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 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 quivering shade, 135 Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 páginas
...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 quivering shade, 136 Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient... | |
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And lonely woodcocks haunt the watery glade. He lifts the tube, and 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 mounting larks... 
