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" Now like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled fraud. The falcon darts Like lightning from above, and in her breast Receives... "
A Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents ... - Page 92
by Mary Trimmer - 1825
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The Poetical Works of William Somervile: In Two Volumes. Collated with the ...

William Somerville, Thomas Park - 1808 - 354 pages
...and fears, as in a tempest toss'd ? His fluttering heart, his varying cheeks confess His inward woe. Now, like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage; Close by bis languid wing, in downy plumes, Covers his fatal beak, and cautions hides The well-dissembled...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Lansdowne, Yalden ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...and fears, as in a tempest tost ? His fluttering heart, his varying cheeks confess Mis inward woe. Now like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled...
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Hobbinol, Field Sports, and The Bowling Green, Volume 1

William Somerville - 1813 - 142 pages
...and fears, as in a tempest toss'd? His fluttering heart, his varying cheeks confess His inward woe. Now, like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes, Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 17

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 462 pages
...and fears, as in a tempest toss'd ? His fluttering heart, his varying cheeks confess His inward woe. Now, like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes, Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 346 pages
...and fears, as in a tempest toss'd ? His fluttering heart, his varying cheeks confess His inward woe. Now, like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes, Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled...
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A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ...

1829 - 494 pages
...by the laws ; and when falconry was in fashion, the pursuit of the Heron was a favourite amusement. -Now like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the Hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well dissembled...
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Buffon's Natural history, corrected and enlarged by J. Wright. (To which are ...

Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...inscription, importing that it had been struck by the elector of Cologne's hawks thirty-five years before. . When falconry was in fashion, the chase of the Heron...stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well dissembled...
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A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes ..., Volume 3

Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...inscription, importing that it had been struck by the elector of Cologne's hawks thirty-five years before. When falconry was in fashion, the chase of th,e Heron was a favourite amusement. Somerville has described with great spirit the contest between the hawks and the Heron, and the death...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...and fears, as in a tempest tost ? His fluttering heart, his varying cheeks confess His inward woe. Now like a wearied stag, That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage ; Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and cautious hides The well-dissembled...
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Memoir of Wm. P. Hawes. To the memory of Cypress. Fire Island-Ana; or a week ...

J. Cypress - 1842 - 274 pages
...for a good fortnight. — Somerville describes the performance to the life — to the death ; — " Now like a wearied stag That stands at bay, the hern provokes their rage, Close by his languid wing, in downy plumes Covers his fatal beak, and, cautious, hides The well-dissembled...
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