 In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse • Forgetful of their course. Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak...  Le stagioni - Seite 46von James Thomson - 1826 - 412 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 Seiten
...Thomson made these changes, he added one line to the bird passage of the shower; I italicize it: Hushed in short suspense The plumy people streak their wings...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign. (Spring, 11.164-67) "Verdant" formed part of the original passage and was used... | |
 | Kevis Goodman - 2004 - 268 Seiten
...vertiginous movement from the vision of a bird's eye to the sight of gathering moisture on a bird's wing ("the plumy People streak their Wings with Oil / To throw the lucid Moisture trickling off" [Sp., 166-67]) - and out again. If the narrator of The Seasons aspires to a philosophic gaze, the early... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 534 Seiten
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign, to strike at once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 Seiten
...expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings...To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign, to strike at once Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests,... | |
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