 | Thomas Best - 1807 - 208 str.
...as you lead it round in artful curve, Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix with gentle twitch the barbed hook; Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1808 - 210 str.
...from the hollow bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly, And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game : Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 str.
...the hollow'd bank Pi everted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 str.
...from the hallow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 str.
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, •With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 str.
...hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; 40B And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1814 - 286 str.
...From the hollow bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging- the delusive fly, And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 str.
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow ; There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap,... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 str.
...from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating ?ow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap,... | |
 | 1822 - 278 str.
...the hollow'd^bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
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With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They .wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook: Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging... 
