 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night Oft till the star that rose at evening bright, 30 Tow'ards Heav'n's descent had slop'd his west'ring wheel. Mean while the rural ditties were not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...tendernes* can be excited by these lines^ We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horrt, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night Oft till the star that rose at evening bright, [wheel. Tow'ards Heav'n's descent had slop'd his west'ring Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...tenderness can be excited by these lines ! We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We kiiow that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to hatten; and though it be allowed... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...MILTON, passicmatety and poetically, Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn; Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of nigbtj Oft till the star that rose at evening bright "towards Heaven's descent had slop'd his west'ring... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove afield, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the...Oft till the star, that rose, at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had slop'd his westering wheel. Mean while the rural ditties were not mute,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...tenderness can b» excited by these lines ? We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten, and though it be allowed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...tenderness can be excited by these lines ? We drove a field, and both together heard, What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd What time the gray- fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose, at evening, bright, Toward Heaven's descent had slop'd his west' ring wheel. Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...can be excited by these lines ! " We drove a field, and both togelher heard What time thr gray fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night." We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed... | |
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We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. 
