Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales... Art of Angling - Page 177by Thomas Best - 1814 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
| Virgil - 1803 - 364 pages
...rain The hollow ditches fills, and floats the plain; And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. i Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. 515 The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales : The cow... | |
| Thomas Best - 1804 - 208 pages
...and continuing to sing for a long time, and kites flying aloft, are signs of fair and dry weather. In men, frequently aches, wounds, and corns, are more...seldom hurts the most unwise; So plain the signs, such profits are the skies: The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 pages
...rain The hollow ditches fills, and floats the plain; And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. 515 The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales: The cow... | |
| Thomas Best - 1807 - 208 pages
...and continuing to sing for a long time, and kites flying aloft, are signs of fair and dry weather. In men, frequently aches, wounds, and corns, are more...frost. Virgil's beautiful description of this sense ka animals, is thus rendered by Mr. Dryden : Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise; The wary crane... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 378 pages
...The hollow ditches fills, am) floats the plain, And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. \Vet weather seldom hurts the most unwise, So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies: 513 The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales : The cow... | |
| Thomas Best - 1808 - 210 pages
...a long time, and kites flying aloft, are signs of fair arid dry weather. In men, frequently aclu's, wounds, and corns, are more troublesome, either towards...signs, such prophets are the skies; The wary crane foresees U.farst, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the hollow vales : The cow looks up, and from... | |
| Thomas Best - 1808 - 204 pages
...and continuing to sing for a long time, and kites flying aloft, are signs cf fair and dry weather. In men, frequently aches, wounds, and corns, are more...of this sense in animals, is thus rendered by Mr. Dry den : . N Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies;... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...The hollow ditches fills, and floats the plain ; (. And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. J Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; So plain...signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales; The cow looks up, and from... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pages
...The hollow ditches fills, and floats the plain ; C And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. j Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; So plain...signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales; The cow looks up, and from... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...d rain The hollow ditches Gils, and floats the plain, And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise, So plain...signs, such prophets are the skies : The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales : The cow looks up, and from... | |
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