 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly; above them threw In hillocks : the swift stag from under ground Bore springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow : There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly; And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game, Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd hy hunger, leap,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly; e in their pregnant causes mix'd Confus'dly, and which thus must ever springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly; ascend ; in whose capacious womb A vapory deluge lies, to snow conge springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...the finny prey. Thomson. An Hymn to May. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook. Thomson. The Seasons. Spring. BARB ; a horse from Barbary. But why should you who still succeed, Whether... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...excellent sport. i Edin. Phil. Journ. vol. xxi. Trans. of the Roy. Soc. of Edin. vol. xxiv. p. 105. And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. 410 Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...from the hollow bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, 22 To throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. THOMSON— Spring. 49. LADY. A lovely image in the glass appears, To that she bends,... | |
 | Durham city, sch - 1852 - 486 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Maps - 1852 - 456 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly : And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
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With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They .wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook: Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging... 
