 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 str.
...Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar In one bright flame, and then return no more. Dry den. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be fair. Gay. SOBEIETY. SIGNIOR Bassanio, hear me: If I do not put on a siber habit, Talk with respect,... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 str.
...ensue : He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gathering rain : When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. so Let Cloddipole then hear us twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart, in alternate verse : I '11... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 str.
...first that useful secret did explain, Why pricking corns foretold the gath'ring rain; When nwallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." Thus also in the Trivia of the same poet, similar omens occur for those who live in towns : On hosier's... | |
 | John Brand - 1872 - 524 str.
...straight ensue ; He first that useful secret did explain, Why pricking corns foretold the gath'ring rain ; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." Thus also in the Trivia of the same poet, similar omens occur for those who live in towns : " But when... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 str.
...with their wings, they are said to foretell rain. Thus Gay, in his first ' Pastoral,' says : — " When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." Parker, in his poem of ' The Nightingale,' published in the year 1632, speaking of swallows, says :... | |
 | 1882 - 778 str.
...the bird that gave such momentous fortunes to Egyptian Thebes they take only this profound augury : When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Cowper sees it catch a locust, and remonstrates with it — Ah, for pity drop the prize, Let it not... | |
 | 1882 - 876 str.
...fortunes to Egyptian Thebes they take only this profound augury : When swallows fleet soar high antl sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Cowper sees it catch a locust, and remonstrates with it— Ah, for pity drop the prize, Let it not... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 str.
...his windward flight, Quivers the wing, returns, and darts downright. — Montgomery : Greenland. (28) When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. — Gay: Shepherd's Wetk. (29) Rustic masonry of swallows fleet. — Hood: Fairies' Pita. (293) The... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 str.
...fly aloft, ss a bird; to mount upward on wings or as on wings. ' Soar above the morning Lirk,* Shak. When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Gay. 2. To rise to a height or mount Intellectually; to tower mentally; to rise above whut is prosaic,... | |
 | Charles Swainson - 1885 - 264 str.
...Westmoreland). Section OSCINES LATIROSTRES. Family HIRUNDINID^E. Genus HIRUNDO. SWALLOW ^Hirundo rustica). A.-S. Swawe. 1. It is a common saying that the low...singing a swallow song, which has been handed down by Athenaeus, and thus rendered into English : — " He comea ! he comes ! who loves to hear Soft sunny... | |
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Cloddipole we learnt to read the skies, To know when hail will fall, or winds arise. He taught us erst the heifer's tail to view, When... 
