 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of night, We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is fo uncertain and remote, that it is never fought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefhdews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is fo uncertain and remote, that it is never fought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is fo uncertain and remote, that it is never fought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of We We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is fo uncertain and remote, that it is never fought,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sultry horn, Batt'ning dur flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove afield, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though...and flowers, appear the heathen deities; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn, Battening our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is fo uncertain and remote, that it is never fought,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our Socks with the fresh .dews of night. 'We know that they never drove a field, and that they...meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never soi^ht because it cannot be kncwn when it is found. Among , Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...and flowers, appear the Heathen deities; Jove and Phosbus, Neptune and JEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies.... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...fresh dews of night. We kiiow that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to hatten; and though it be allowed that the representation may...it is never sought because it cannot be known when n is found. Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Pheebus,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...heard, What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they...and flowers, appear the Heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^lolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies.... | |
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We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it... 
