 | Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pàgines
...iniperfe>5!: conductors of heat, and are thence a warmer clothing. — Firft with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; "With wiry teeth revolving cards releafe 95 The tangled knots, and fmooth the ravell'd fleece; . Next moves the iron-hand with fingers... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1799 - 338 pàgines
...leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards releafe The tangled knots, and fmooth the ravell'd fleece; Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line ; Slow, with foft lips, the whirling Can acquires The tender fkeins, and wraps in... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1802 - 332 pàgines
...lover wins, And wheels his trident — while the monarch spins. First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With...The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece j Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line J Slow... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 652 pàgines
...release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece ; t moves the iron hand with fingers fiue, Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line ; Slow with soft lips the whirling can acquires The leader skeins, and wraps in rising spires ; With qnicken'd pice in tccuive rollers move, And these... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1806 - 336 pàgines
...lover wins, And wields his trident,^-while the Monarch fpina, — Firft with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards releafe The tangled knots, and fmooth the ravell'd fleece ; Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine,... | |
 | David Peter Davies - 1811 - 758 pàgines
...the watery God ; His ponderous oars to slender spindles turns, And pours o'er mossy wheels his foamy urns ; With playful charms her hoary lover wins, And...with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line ; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and warps in... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1816 - 494 pàgines
...Darwin: " First with nice eye, emerging Naiads cull, From leathery poos, the vegetable wool: With wiery teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and...with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line. Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pàgines
...will be much better remembered in that form, than in prose : First, with nice eye, emerging maidens cull From leathery pods, the vegetable wool ; With...revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the revell'd fleece ; Next, moves the iron hand with fingers fine,: Combs the -wide card, and forms the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1821 - 304 pàgines
...harmonious, or, as you say, Rosamond, their pretty sound.' He then repeated the following lines: " ' With wiry teeth, revolving cards release The tangled...fleece: Next moves the iron hand, with fingers fine, v Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pàgines
...wins, fll And wields his trident, — while the Monarch spins. —First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With...with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising... | |
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First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the... 
