 Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose; Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in...  Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne - Seite 23von Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 591 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 Seiten
...groupe the herds and flocks compose, 485 Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, 490 Which incompos'd he shakes ; and... | |
 | George Lipscomb - 1799 - 394 Seiten
...and romantic beauty, so elugantly described by Thomson, ; . "On the grassy banfe Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes; and, from... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1801 - 322 Seiten
...sont agréables dans la nature, en peinture et en poésie. On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie, while others stand Half in the flood; and often bending sip The circling surface. In the miJdle rears The strong, laborious ox his honest front, Which incomposed he shakes ; and from... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 Seiten
...various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand * Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'dhe shakes; and from... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 Seiten
...various groupe the herds and flocks compose—- Rural confusion! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes; and from... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 Seiten
...groupe the herds and flocks compose — Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes ; and from... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 Seiten
...delineated, that he might have worked from this (ketch ; " On the grassy bank " Some rumina'ing lie ; while others stand " Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip " The circling surface. Nor do we recollect that any pret hath been struck with the murmurs of the numberless insects that... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...delineated, that he might have worked from this sketch: — -- On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. — •>— — i He adds, that the ox, in the middle of them, i tf . '»- — — —r- From his sides... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 Seiten
...various group the herds and flocks compose, 485 Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, 490 Which incompos'd he shakes; and... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - 286 Seiten
...of cattle is the chief source of variety along this shore. On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. jTheir groups sometimes appear to great advantage relieved by the dark oak woods of Cahirnane, which... | |
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