 | 1842 - 1046 pagina’s
...in a striking light. " It is noon," says the writer of prose. How says the poet the same thing 1 " Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting herds...The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pagina’s
...in a striking light. " It is noon," says the writer of prose. How says the poet the same thing 1 " Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting herds...The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pagina’s
...state) How vain the ardour of the crowd. How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds...repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 pagina’s
...state) How vain the ardour of the crowd. How low, how littie are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds...repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, .6 And float... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pagina’s
...impious eagemeu began the war, Some more than common punishment prepare. Rove. Lucan. Phanalia, book vii. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Gray. Ode on the Spring. There is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue, as that of some uncommon and grievous... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...peopled air The busy murmur glows ! 1 The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed2 spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's3 soher eye,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagina’s
...state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great I Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled aii The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing. Eager to taste the honied spring, And... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pagina’s
...over many parts of the mountain. Fig. 46.— LERN.SA IWKi.VIKIKII). 64 CLASS V.— INSECTS. INSECTA. " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun." — GRAY. THE word insect is derived... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 448 pagina’s
...Already, — for it is Spring far advanced, — the air is becoming peopled with insect tribes — " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon." A thousand times ten thousand, nay, thousands of thousands, are already in the air; and the low hum... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pagina’s
...state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great 1 Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds...The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their... | |
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Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the... 
