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" Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit... "
Notes and Queries - Page 251
1853
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1776 - 478 pages
...430 Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Flotes, as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wings Eij Til! ev'n, nor then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tnn'd her soft lays:...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...430 Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Floats, as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'dplumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wiugs Till ev'ri1 nor then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling-, but all night tun'd her soft lays...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Floats, as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes. From branch to branch the smaller birds with song...Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wings Till ev'n, nor then the solemn nightingale 435 Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others...
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The Canary Bird: A Moral Fiction : Interspersed with Poetry

Edward Augustus Kendall - 1799 - 172 pages
...humble caution on their own. CHAP. VII. From branch to branch, the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even, nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays. SEPARATED from his guide, the yellow-hammer, our...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Floats as theypass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes: From branch to branch the smaller birds with song...Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays: Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts ; the swan, with arched neck Between her...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...430 Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Floats, as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song...Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wings Till ev'n, nor then the solemn nightingale 435 Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

1806 - 330 pages
...crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Floats as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song...Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts; the swan, with arched neck Between...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...on winds ; the air Floats, as they pass, fann'd with .unnumber'd plumes. From branch to branch (he smaller birds with song Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wings Till ev'n ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays. Others on...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds ; the air Floats as they pass, fann'd with unnumlier'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with song...Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breasts; the swan, with arched neck Between...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...Her annual voyage•, borne on winds \ the air Floats as•they pass, fann'dwith unnumber'd plumes: From branch to branch the smaller birds with song...woods, and spread their painted wings Till even:• BOB then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but: all night tun'd her soft, lays: Others,, on silver...
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