 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pàgines
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Preposterous sight ! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half-petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder; not like hungering... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pàgines
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Preposterous sight ! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners, whore the fence Screens them, and seem halfpetrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pàgines
...pages. It will serve as a companion picture to the winter piece already extracted from the " Seasons." " The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder ; not like hungering man, Fretful if unsupplied, but silent, meek,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 302 pàgines
...amidst his harem sleeps In unsuspecting pomp ;" in the patient cattle, that on the winter's morning " Mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness;" in the little squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, " At once, swift as a bird. Ascends... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 294 pàgines
...amidst his harem sleeps In unsuspecting pomp ;" in the patient cattle, that on the winter's morning " Mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbcnt sadness;" in the little squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, " At once,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 404 pàgines
...amidst his harem sleeps In unsuspecting pomp ; " in the patient cattle, that on the winter's morning " Mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness ; " in the little squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, "At once, swift as a bird,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1885 - 352 pàgines
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Prepost'rous sight ! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The streams are lost amid the splendid blank, O'erwhelming all distinction. On the flood Indurated and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 328 pàgines
...amidst his harem sleeps In unsuspecting pomp ; " in the patient cattle, that on the winter's morning " Mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness ; " in the little squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, " At once, swift as a bird,... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pàgines
...approach The cottage, walk along the plastered wall, Preposterous sight! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...bright apparel clad. And, fledged with icy feathers, not superb. The cattJe mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pàgines
...approach The cottage, walk along the plastered wall, Preposterous sight ! the legs without the man. 20 The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half-petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder, not like hungering... | |
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The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb.... 
