| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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