 | Virgil - 1997 - 476 páginas
...Lands: All these in order march, and marching sing The warlike Actions of their Sea-born King. 965 Like a long Team of Snowy Swans on high, Which clap their Wings, and cleave the liquid Sky, When homeward from their wat'ry Pastures born, They sing, and Asia's Lakes their Notes return.... | |
 | Peter Young - 2008 - 204 páginas
...of the dying swan's last lament), a sownder, whiting, or team. 1! Thus John Dryden's heroic couplet: Like a long team of snowy swans on high Which clap their wings and cleave the liquid sky.'4 Wedge, describing the formation, is generally used of birds in flight. In Britain they are wildfowl;... | |
 | The Farmer's Magazine - 1864 - 588 páginas
...may plough one acre of wheat with a team of horse.' — Mortimer. " 2. Any number passing in a line. Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky.' — Dryden. ' To team (i>. a.) (from the noun), to join together in a team. ' By this the night... | |
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Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky, When, homeward from their wat'ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return. Not one who heard their music from afar, Would think these troops... 
