 | Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 pages
...isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? What...plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." THOMSON. Y 2 These living clouds consist of wild geese and ducks, pochards, wigeons, and teals. The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...Hebrides ; "Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ] what nations come and go 1 And how the living clouds on clouds arise! Infinite...plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore are one wild cry. Here the plain harmless native his small nock, And herd diminutive of many hues, Tends on the little... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...isles, Of furthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stonny Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air, And rudo resounding shore are one wild cry. Most birds perform their migrations during the night, but there... | |
 | John Watkins - 1832 - 800 pages
...ocean in vast whirls Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule : — Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ! till all the plume dark air, And rude resounding shore, are one wild cry." Well might such an object engage the... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 382 pages
...filling the air with their resounding cries.* They are not hyperbolically described as - Living clouds, Infinite wings, till all the plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore, are one wild cry. In a picturesque light, these living clouds are of little value ; unless, indeed, some wild, forlorn,... | |
 | 1835 - 246 pages
...isles Of farthest Thule*, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? What...all the plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore, is one wild cry ? ' " Among the birds of passage that, as I have said," continued Mr. Aylesford, "visit... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made { what nations come and go V And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite...plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore are one wild cry. Here the plain harmless native his small flock, And herd diminutive, of many hues, Tends on the little... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...•\vho can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go j*~ • ' And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ! till all the plume dark air, And rude resounding shore, are one wild cry. Here the plain harmless native, his small... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 972 pages
...ocean in vast whirls Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule :— Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume dark air, And rude resounding shore, are one wild cry." Well might such an object engage the... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 954 pages
...ocean in vast whirls Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule :— Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ! till all the plume dark air, And rude resounding shore, are one wild cry." Well might such an object engage the... | |
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Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore... 
