 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...over many parts of the mountain. Fig. 46.— LERN.SA IWKi.VIKIKII). 64 CLASS V.— INSECTS. INSECTA. " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun." — GRAY. THE word insect is derived from a Latin term signifying cut or... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 448 pages
...Already, — for it is Spring far advanced, — the air is becoming peopled with insect tribes — " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon." A thousand times ten thousand, nay, thousands of thousands, are already in the air; and the low hum... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man ;... | |
 | 1850 - 454 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man ;... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...llistoric.il Biography. By William Hepworth Dixon. London : Chapman and Hall. 1851. €JJB 3ns?rt flrihra. ' The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...their gaily-gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun.' — QUAY. OCCASIONALLY, some fact is desirable to startle us into the conviction that a change for... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...care ; The panting herds repose, Yet, hark ! how, through the peopled air, The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing,' Eager to taste...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ; The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly...their gaily-gilded trim Quick glancing to the sun." The "Ode on the Death of a Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes " is somewhat clumsy and ill-directed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...and Max. Tyr, See Reiske's note, p. 82. The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing, is Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. so To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...nightingalet are represented by the poets as adorning Aphrodite (Venns), as she rose from the sea. The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...their gaily-gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep,... | |
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To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay... 
