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" Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his... "
The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects.. - Page 76
by James Rennie - 1831
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 17

1810 - 522 pages
...bead, And eyes half clos'd for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pages
...head, And eyes half closed for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane,...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through \vood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his...comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucidsprings. Lo ' from his trunk upturned, aloft be flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking...
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The Curse of Kehama, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1812 - 232 pages
...And eyes half-clos'd for pleasure, would he stand. Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. • 11. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertoppiug the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake . His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs....
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Briefe an eine deutsche Edelfrau über die neuesten englischen Dichter

Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...head, And eyes hatf- clos' d for pleasure; woiM he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, ? And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel- grass , whose silvery feathers play Overlapping the young trees, On comes the Elepliant, to...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 pages
...head, And eyes half-clos'd for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle band. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...crackling fall before his w-ay, And tassel-grass, 57 v hose silvery fcaihers play O'ertoppiug the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst...
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The British Magazine, Volume 1

1830 - 824 pages
...head, And eyes half clos'd for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake...
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The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects, Volume 2

James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pages
...elephant also possesses the power of ejecting from his trunk, water and * Phil. Trans. f Journal yol.ip 182. dust, and his own saliva, over every part of...way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertoppingthe young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst, at noon, in yon pellucid springs....
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Historical and descriptive account of British India, by H. Murray [and others].

1832 - 486 pages
...A steam-engine, than of any mere animal force of which we have a cUar and accustomed conception. " Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs....
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

1832 - 670 pages
...their habitations under ground. On the banks of those rivers, as Mr. Southey beautifully describes, " Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes, which crackling, fall belore bin way, And tassel -grass, whose silvery feathers play OVrtopping the young trees, On comes...
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