 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 sider
...school-boy. Hence, around the head Of wandering swain, the white-wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight ; and then directly on In long excursion skims...O'er the rough moss, and o'er the trackless waste 696 The heath-hen nutters, pious fraud ! to lead The hot-pursuing spaniel far astray. BE not the Muse... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 sider
...school-boy. Hence , around lhe head Ofwandering swain, the white-wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight , and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , To tempt him from her nest. The wild duck, hence, O'er the rough moss, and o'er the trackless waste The heath-hen flutters , ( pious... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 sider
...school-boy. Hence around the head Of wand' ring swain, the white-wing' d plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims...trackless waste The heath-hen flutters, pious fraud! to lead The hot -pursuing spaniel far astray. Be not the muse asham'd here to bemoan Her brothers of the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 sider
...school-boy. Hence, around the head Of wandering swain, the white- wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims...trackless waste The heath-hen flutters, pious fraud ! to lead The hot pursuing spaniel far astray. Be not the Muse asham'd here to bemoan Her brothers of the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 sider
...school-boy. Hence, around the head Of wandering swain, the white-wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims...trackless waste The heath-hen flutters, pious fraud! to lead The hot pursuing spaniel far astray. From liberty confin'd, and boundless air. Dull are the pretty... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 sider
...this bird : • Hence around the head Of wandering swains, the white-wing'd plover wheel* Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn, To tempt him from her nest. The following anecdote exhibits the domestic nature of the Lapwing, as well as the art with which it conciliates... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 sider
...unfeeling school-hoy. Hence around the head Of wandering swain, the white wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn, To tempt him from her uest. The wild duck, hence O'er the rough moss; and o'er the trackless waste The heath-hen flutters,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 sider
...molest, Amid a neighbouring bush they silent drop, And whirring thence, as if alarm'd, deceive 690 To tempt him from her nest. The wild-duck hence O'er the rough moss, and o'er the tfackless waste The heath-hen flutters ; piuus fraud ! to lead The hot-pursuing spaniel far astray.... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 sider
...unfeeling school-boy. Hence around the head Of wand'ring swain, the white-wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight and then directly on In long excursion skims...trackless waste The heath-hen flutters, pious fraud ! to lead The hot-pursuing spaniel far astray. Be not the Muse asham'd, here to bemoan Her brothers of the... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sider
...swain, the white-wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursions skims the level lawn, To tempt him from her nest....trackless waste The heath-hen flutters, (pious fraud !) to lead The hot pursuing spaniel far astray. Be not the Muse asham'd, here to bemoan Her brothers of the... | |
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Plover wheels Her sounding Flight, and then directly on In long Excursion skims the level Lawn, To tempt him from her Nest. The... 
