...so steers the prudent cram. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Their downy breast : the man with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary fvtl.— Mitttm'a Ornitcopy. Day. BirfljB. DlMlIl'i. VI. Archbishop (Thomas) Cranmer, 1489, Aslacton,...

...heightened than by the * contemplation of the structure of the most gigantic ' animals.' . i the iwan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows • Her state with oary feet.'—MILTON. LIVING on the banks of the Thames, I have often been pleased with seeing the care...

...heightened than by the ' contemplation of the structure of the most gigantic 'animals.' THE SWAN. — — ' The swan, with arched neck ' Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows 1 Her state with oary feet.' MILTON. LIVING on the banks of the Thames, I have often been pleased with...

...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lay*: Others on silver lakes and rivers bathed Their downy breast; 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 penons, tower The mid aerial sky: others on ground...

...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet of they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others on ground...

...many 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...descriptions of the swan. Homer calls the swan long-necked, 8ov\txo5fipi»r : but how much more pittoresque, if he had arched this length of neck ? " For this...

...but all night tuned her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft ihey quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others on ground...

...but all night tuned her soft lays. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet of they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others on ground...

...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays : Others on soft lakes and rivers bathed 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, tower The mid aerial sky : others on ground...

...but all night tuned her soft lays. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed * Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet; yet of they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : others on ground...