 | 1797 - Страниц: 420
...art ; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches whh the unwieldy pri2e 3 Each motion humours with his steady hands, And one slight hair the mighty bulk commands; Till tir'dat last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length. He now,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - Страниц: 308
.... He views the tumbling fish with longing eyei, While the line stretches with th' unwieldy prize ; Each motion humours with his steady hands, And one slight hair the mighty bulk commands: Till, tir' d at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length. He now,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Страниц: 604
...humors with his steady hands, And onesligln hair the mighty bulk commands Till tir'd at last, despoil'd 38(i 387 He now wiih pleasure views the gasping prize Gnashh i sharp teeth , and roll his blood-shot... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 582
...art; Hf views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with th' unwieldy prize ; Each motion humours with his steady hands, And one slight hair the mighty bulk commands ; Till, tir'd at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length. He now,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Страниц: 832
...; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with th' unwieldy prize ; er known, thyself Bred up in poverty and straits at home, Lost in a desert here and hunger-bit tir'd at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length. He now,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Страниц: 364
...; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with th' unwieldy prize ; Each motion humours with his steady hands, And one slight hair the mighty bulk commands ; Till, tir'd at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length. He now,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Страниц: 270
...art; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with the' unwieldy prize; Each motion humours with his steady hands, And one...hair the mighty bulk commands ; Till tired at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length. He now, with pleasure,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Страниц: 1062
...dubious art; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the ling stretches with unwieldy prize ; : Till,tir'd at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds his length.... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1824 - Страниц: 434
...the line stretches with die unwieldy prize j " He views the tumbling fish, with longing eyes, "Kaeh motion humours with his steady hands, " And one slight hair the mighty hulk commands ; " The game utli* art the stream unfolds his length; " Till tir'd at last, . !• .... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - Страниц: 600
...; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretehes with unwieldy prize ; Eaeh 9 9 9 <h=i=j=k=l= 9 9 9_= eommands : Till, tir'd at last, despoil'd of all his strength, The game athwart the stream unfolds... | |
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Now hope exalts the fisher's beating heart, Now he turns pale, and fears his dubious art ; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with th... 
