 It is quite certain he had never been bee-hunting. If he had we should have had a fifth Georgic. Yet he seems to have known that bees sometimes escaped to the woods: "Nor bees are lodged in hives alone, but found In chambers of their own beneath the ground:...  The Writings of John Burroughs - Σελίδα 76των John Burroughs - 1895Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Virgil - 1803 - 364 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and wounded wound; And heaps of slaughter 'd soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain; Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. 1 19 With gorgeous wings, the marks of sov'reign sway, The two contending princes make their way; Intrepid... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 378 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and wounded wound, And heaps of slanghter'd soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns ruin. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway. The two contending princes make their way;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and, wounded, wound, And heaps of slaughtered soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such showers of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks ot sovereign sway, The two contending princes... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and, wounded, wound, And heaps of slaughtered soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such showers of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway, The two contending princes... | |
 | Virgil - 1819 - 488 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and wounded wound ; And heaps of slaughter'd soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain ; Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sov'reign sway, The two contending princes make their way ; : ' Intrepid... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and, wounded, wound, And heaps of slaughter'd soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such showers of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway, The two contending princes... | |
 | Virgil - 1825 - 294 σελίδες
...from high, and wounded wound ; And heaps of slaughter'd soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstoi.es lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway, 120 The two contending princes make their way ; Intrepid... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 σελίδες
...from high, and wounded wound ; And heaps of slaughtered soldier* bite the ground. THE POEMS OF DRYDEN. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway, The two contending princes make their way ; Intrepid... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and wounded, wound, And heaps of slaughter'd soldiers bite the ground. Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain; Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sov'reign sway, The two contending princes make their way; Intrepid... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 σελίδες
...Headlong they fall from high, and wounded wound, And heaps of slaughtered soldiers bite the ground. Winter awful Thou ! with clouds and storms showers of acorns rain. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway, The two contending princes... | |
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