Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in... The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne - Page 35by Gilbert White - 1837 - 640 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and floeks eompose, Hural eonfusion ! ur bounty may create ; To mark the matchless workings...of the power That shuts within its seed the future eireling surfaee. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of henest front, Whieh ineomposed he... | |
| Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...Gently difftis'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others...flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes j and from... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose j Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Pome ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incomposed he shakes ; and from... | |
| Gilbert White - 1858 - 454 pages
...pleasing circumstance escape him. He says, in his Summer, '• A various group the herds and Hocks compose on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie, while others...the world, containing, in its whole circumference, 2646 yards, or very nearly a mile and an half. The length of the north-west and opposite side is about... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...Gently diffused into a limpid plain; A various group the herds and flocks compose ; Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others...flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incomposed he shakes ; and from... | |
| 1859 - 148 pages
...group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank 68 BONNET ON COUNTRY LIFE. Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the...flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incomposed he shakes ; and from... | |
| 1861 - 174 pages
...Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others...flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incomposed he shakes ; and from... | |
| James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...various group the herds and flocks compose^ Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating He; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, 490 Which incomposed he shakes; and... | |
| James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...Grently diffus'd into a limpid plain, A various group the herds and flocks compose I Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others...flood, and often bending sip The circling surface. In the middle droopl The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incompos'd he shakes, and from... | |
| Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 pages
...circumstance escape him. He says, in his Summer, — " A various group the herds and flocks compose : on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand, Half in the flood, and, often hending, sip The circling surface." Wolmer-pond, so called, I suppose, for eminence sake, is a vast... | |
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