 The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes, Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon,...  English country gentlemen - Página 57por Washington Irving - 1835Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 páginas
...The livelong night : nor these alone, whose notes Nice-finger'd Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated...owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming load. The jay, the pie, and ev'n the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigni. And only... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 páginas
...live-long night ; nor these alone, whose notes Nice-finger'd art must emulate in vain ; But cawing rooks and kites that swim sublime In still repeated...the rising moon, have charms for me. — COWPER." * Recent observations, however, by extending our views, have shown that in several instances our author... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...The livelong night : nor these alone, wTiose notes Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated...owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 páginas
...Nice-fingcr'd Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still-repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, 205 That hails the rising moon, have charms for me, Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet... | |
 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1833 - 184 páginas
...or glide. The poet Cowper describes this elegant motion in his well known lines : — " But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and ev'n the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me." One other of the larger hawks... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 páginas
...and propriety, he might have said, " But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeating circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en...owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me." For his soul was attuned to the sublime rather than the beautiful; and above every other his favourite... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1834 - 492 páginas
...borne testimony : for each can say, that Cawing rooks and kites, thai swim sublime In «till repealed circles, screaming loud. The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl Thftt hails the rising moon, have charme for me. Sound* Inharmonious in themselves, and harsh, Yet... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 páginas
...The livelong night : nor these alone, whose notes Nice-finger'd Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated...owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only... | |
 | 1835 - 802 páginas
...Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated eircles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding...owl. That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where pence for ever reignt, And only... | |
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