 While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood; The springing trout in speckled pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming...  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Pagina 292door Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 400 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1771 - 662 pagina’s
...pride, The ialmon, monarch of the tide, The ruthlefs pike, intent on war, The filver eel and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, Bybow'rsof birch, and troves of pine, And hedges flow'r'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, fo gayly... | |
 | 1772 - 364 pagina’s
...pride; The falmon, monarch of the tide, The ruthlefs pike intent on war; The filver eel, and motled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bow'rs of birch, aud groves of pine, And hedges flow'r'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gayly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pagina’s
...pride } The falmon, monarch of the tide, The ruthlefs pike, intent on war j The filver eel and motled par. Devolving from thy parent lake» A charming maze thy waters make; * By bow'rs of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flow'r'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gayly... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 336 pagina’s
...* The par is a fmall fifh^ not unlike the fmelt, which it rivals in delicacy and flavour. Devolving Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy...make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks fo gayly green, May num'rous herds and flocks be... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pagina’s
...• The falmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthlefs pike, intent 9n war ' The filver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, . By bowers of birch and grev«s ^of pine,. , And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks-, .fo gaily green, May... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pagina’s
...pride ; The falmon, monarch cf the tide ; The ruthlefs pike, intent on war; The filver tel, and motled par *. Devolving from thy parent lake, . A charming maze thy "waters make, By bow'rs of birch, and grdves of pine, And hedges jlower' d -with eglantine. " The par is a fmall fid,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pagina’s
...pride; The (aimon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthlels pike, intent on war ; The filvcr eel and mottled fliame to' fly. There Confufion, Terror's child ; Conflict fierce, and R how'rs of birch, and groves of pine, .And hedges, flowcr'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, Ib gaily... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagina’s
...pride ; The falmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthlefs pike, intent on war; The fiU-er eel and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bow'rs of birch, .ind proves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, Го... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 560 pagina’s
...pride ; The falmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthlefs pike, intent on war; The filver eel, and motled par *. Devolving from thy parent lake, • A charming maze thy waters make, By bowVs of birch, and groves of pine. And hedges flower'd with eglantine. Still on thy banks, fo gayly... | |
 | Robert Heron - 1799 - 432 pagina’s
...pride ; The falmon. monarch of the tide ; Th^ ruthlefs pike, intent on war j The filver eel, and motled par*. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze...groves of pine, And. hedges flower'd with eglantine. Stitl'dii thy banks fo gaily green. May uum'rous herds and docks be feen, And 1 rifles chanting o'er... | |
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