They summ'd their pens; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect: there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build: Part loosely wing the region; part, more wise, In common, ranged... Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison - Página 104por Alexander Pope - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1819 - 614 páginas
...the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyrits build ; Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge...set forth Their aery caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Basing their flight ; so steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage,... | |
| 1821 - 444 páginas
...adverse winds with greater facility. Milton expresses this circumstance with his usual superiority : — Part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge...their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight. So steers... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 páginas
...and cedar tops their eyries build: Part loosely wing the region, part more wise 430 In common, rang'd in figure wedge their way. Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight: so steers... | |
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build. Part loosely wing the region; part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge...set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight: so steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage,... | |
| Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 páginas
...his Paradise Lost, book 7, 1. 4:26, has elegantly expressed this circumstance. . Thus they, rang'd in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight : so steers... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 páginas
...The Eagle and the Stork On cliffs and Cedar tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region, part more wise. In common, ranged in figure wedge...set forth Their aery caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight; so steers the prudent Crane Her annual voyage,... | |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1824 - 474 páginas
...clouds." THOMSON. Milton also has described the flight of these birds : " Part loosely wing the region, part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge...their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight." SWALLOWS.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build: Pan loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, rang'd 824 airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight; so steers... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...and cedar tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region, pan more wise 425 In common, rang"d in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas' Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight: so steers... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...and eedar tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In eommon, rang'd airy earavan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing. Easing their flight ; so steers... | |
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