 | 1852 - 874 pagine
...deceitful air with empty jaws ; The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws; She flies, he stretches, 852 What various sport does rural life afford ! What unbought dainties heap the wholesome board ! Nor less... | |
 | William Youatt - 1852 - 452 pagine
...deceitful air with empty jaws ; The suttle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flys, he stretches, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots...he winds, and soon regains the way, Then tears with goary mouth the screaming prey." Gay's Poems, vol i.— Rural Sports, v. 290.-— L.] Mr. Richardson,... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 pagine
...deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws : She flies, he stretches : now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots...way, Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey. What various sport does rural life afford ! What unbought dainties heap the wholesome board ! Nor less... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pagine
...his paws : She flies, he stretches : now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots the ground : She turns, he winds, and soon regains the...way, Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey." Gay, Rural Sports, ii. 289. " Sad on yon little eminence she sits ; Intent she listens with one ear... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pagine
...deceitful air with empty jaws ; The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flies, he stretches, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots...winds, and soon regains the way, Then tears with gory month the screaming prey. What various sport does rural life afford ! What unbought dainties heap the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pagine
...subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flies, he stretches ; now with nimble bound Eager ho presses on, but overshoots his ground; She turns ;...he winds, and soon regains the way, Then tears with goary inouth the screaming prey. What various sports does rural life afford ! What unbought dainties... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pagine
...deceitful air with empty jaws ; Tho subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; She flics, he stretches, ed, with gay enamelled eolors mixed, Of whieh the sun more glad impr ; ehe turns, be winds, and soon regains the way, Then tears with gory month the screaming prey. What... | |
 | William Youatt - 1857 - 474 pagine
...deceitful ;iir with empty jaws ; The suttle hare darts swift beneath his paws; She flys, he stretehes, now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground : She turns, he winds, and soon regiins the way, Then tears with goury mouth the screaming prey." Gay's I'otms, vol i. — Rural Sports,... | |
 | 1866 - 300 pagine
...deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws : She flies, he stretches : now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots...way, Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey. What various sport does rural life afford ! What unbought dainties heap the wholesome hoard ! Nor less... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pagine
...The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws ; «72 FISHING -HUNTING, &o. She flies, she stretches now with nimble bound ; Eager he presses on, but overshoots...way, Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey. GAY'S Rural Sport*. See how the well-taught pointer leads the way ! The scent grows warm ; he stops... | |
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Yet if for slyvan sports thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course I view ! How does my eye the circling race pursue ! He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his... 
