| Virgil - 1803 - 364 sider
...to hear him sing his wrongs : Fierce tigers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawn, ing tongues. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence, By stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence.... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 sider
...sec with what words and melody Dryden and Sotheby have given these lines to the English reader. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone : Whose nest some prying churl had Tore yet imfledg'd from the maternal found, and thence breast. By... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 sider
...heads to hear him sing his wrongs: Fierce tigers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning tongues. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence, By stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence.... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 482 sider
...to hear him sing his wrongs : Tierce tigers couched around, and lolled their fawiv ing tongues. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some pryingchurl had found, and thence, By stealth, conveyed the unfcathered innocence,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 sider
...heads to hear him sing his wrongs : Fierce tigers couched around, and lolled their fawning tongues. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some pry ing churl had found, and thence, By stealth, conveyed the unfeathered innocence.... | |
| John Watkins - 1808 - 568 sider
...ilia Flet noctem, ramoque sedens, miserable carmen Integral, & moestis late loca qucstubus implet. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone The mother nightingale laments alone; Wliose nest some prying churl had found, and thenc* By stealth convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence.... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1812 - 376 sider
...PROPHECY. [From the Morning Chronicle, Feb. £.]' • ' ' " » Quails populea mcerens Philomela sub ununr, Amissos queritur foetus, &c. &c. AS close in poplar...spread, The bright tear mingling with his frequent sob»> Ill-fated Eldon mourns his frustrate jobs ; Which, from the Treasury nest in evil hour, Grey,... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 sider
...miscrabile carmen Integrat, et nwsstis late loca qifestibus implet. \ Thus translated by Dry den : So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone ; \Vhose nest some prying churl had found, and thence By stealth, convey'd the tcathcr'd innocence... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 sider
...Flet noctem, ramoque sedens, miserabile carmen Integral, et mcestis late loca questibus implet. So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone; Whose nest some prying churl had fourid, and thence By stealth convey'd th' unfeatherM innocence. But... | |
| Virgil - 1819 - 488 sider
...to hear him sing his wrongs : Fierce tigers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning tongues. * So, close in poplar shades, (her children gone) The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence, By stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence.... | |
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