| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 σελίδες
...So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Ahove the storm, and leaves the lowly vales : The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind: The swallow skims the river's wat'ry face : The frogs renew the... | |
| Henry Stephens - 1844 - 738 σελίδες
...says — " Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise. So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies: The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales." ; (279.) The Weather-cock is a very useful instrument to the farmer. It should be erected on a conspicuous... | |
| E. Harmon - 1846 - 122 σελίδες
...amain. Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above...cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind : The swallow skim's the river's wat'ry face ; The frogs renew the... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 σελίδες
...LAMPS. Wet weather seldom hurts tbe most unwise, So plain the signs, such prophets arc the skies : eshed for future toil, If toil await ni", or if dangers new. THE TASK OP SEPBOVTSO FOLLT heaven, and snuffs it in the wind. The swallow skims the river's watery face ; Tbe frogs renew the... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - 482 σελίδες
...So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary erane foresees it first, and sails Ahove the storm, and leaves the lowly vales: The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind : The swallow skims the river's wal'ry face : The frogs renew the... | |
| Jules Michelet - 1868 - 364 σελίδες
...:— " Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise, So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies : The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above...cow looks up. and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind. The swallow skims the river's watery face, The frogs renew the croaks... | |
| Virgil - 1870 - 550 σελίδες
...the skica. The \vary craneforeseesit first, and sails Above the storm, anil leaves the lowly valos: The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind: The swallow skims the river's wal'ry face: The frogs renew the croaks... | |
| Charles Swainson - 1873 - 326 σελίδες
...Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. Crane. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales : Cow. The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind : Swallow.... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 σελίδες
...lave Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise, So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies — The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above...cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind ; The swallow skims the river's watery face ; The frogs renew the... | |
| Virgil - 1877 - 528 σελίδες
...amain. Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; 515 So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above...cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind ; 520 The swallow skims the river's watery face ; The frogs renew... | |
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