Fluttring among the Olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours, and his... The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 393by Edmund Spenser - 1839Full view - About this book
| English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...Butterfly With excellent device and wondrous slight, 330 Fluttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight ; The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad out-stretched horns, his airy thighs, 33$ His glorious... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...butterflic, With excellent device and wondrous slight, riuttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap...is dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie tliies, Hit glorious colours, and his glistering eies. Which when Arachne saw, as overlaid, And mastered... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...butterflie, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which...doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is (light, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours, and his glistering eies.... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...Butterflie, Whh excellent device and wondrous slight, 330 Fluttring among the Olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap...with which his backe is dight, His broad outstretched horues, his hayrie thies, 835 His glorious colours, and his glistering eies. ,. Which when Arachne... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...butter/lie, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight , The velvet nap...dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies. His glorious colours, and his glistering eics. Speruer'i iluiopotmot. With an old buttery hatch, worn... | |
| 1836 - 456 pages
...pleasure. Who has ever described a butterfly like our Spenser in those lines of matchless beauty ? The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie. The silken downe with which his backe w digtit, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thles. His glorious colours and his glisteiing eies.... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1838 - 372 pages
...to pleasure. Who has ever described a butterfly like our Spenser in those lines of matchless beauty? The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is (light, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours and his glistering eies.... | |
| John Obadiah Westwood - 1841 - 306 pages
...butterfly, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight— The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight ; His broad outstretehed horns, his airy thighs, His glorious colours,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 260 pages
...butterfly, With excellent device and wondrous sleight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad outstretched horns, his hairy thighs, His glorious colours... | |
| John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Christian literature, American - 1848 - 360 pages
...BUTTERFLY, With excellent device and wondrous sleight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which on its wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad outstretched horns, his... | |
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