...found among the ancient writers, notj witstanding their great partiality to this bird. The s wait, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with wary feet. I find by an act of Edw. IV. c. 6. " no one, possessing a freehold of less clear yearly...

...beams twisted themselves, " Upon whose golden threads the angels walk " To and again from heaven.*— " You must not think me infected with the spirit of...poets, says Mr. Richardson, have not hit upon this heauty ; so lavish have they been in their descriptions of the swan. Homer calls the swan long-necked,...

...twisted themselves, " Upon whose go I den threads the angels walk " To and again from heaven," • " You must not think me infected with the spirit of...The swan with arched neck " Between her white wings mantlin g proudly, rows " Her state with oary feet." Book VII, v. 438, &c. " The ancient poets, says...

...30.) that Milton in his justly admired description of the swan, had a passage of Donne in his eye: the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling +, proudly rows Her state with oary feet. Milton. The jealous swan, there swimming in his pride, With his arch'd breast the waters did divide,...

...mnofiyj is state," to be understood in the description of the fiwan in the /th book of Paradise Lost: The swan with arched neck Between her white wings...mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet.— ue. the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her •bite wings, proudly rows her canopy,...

...notice of it; but none with that justness of description and in so picturesque a manner as our Milton. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet— /"an Lest,. Book vii. In ancient times it was served up at every great feast, •when the elegance...

...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 white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tow'r The mid aerial sky: others on ground...

...canopy,) is state," to be understood in the description of the swan in the 7th book of Paradise Lost: The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her stale with oary feet. — ie the swan with arched neck, between the mantling of her white wings, proudly...

..." ' • . '• .A '. ri • ,'. -.. -. . if '.,', .• .'• ) S1 Milton says finely of the Sican,. The Swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly ROWS HER STATE-— I should think he might probably have that line of Fletcher in his head, How like a Swan she SWIMS...

...warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit 440 The dank, and. rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky: others on...