...less of dramatic versatility than in Burns's allusion to a worn-out horse, or Dante's description of the bird ' who midst the leafy bower Has in her nest...Their wished looks, and to bring home their food.' (Gary's translation.) Such things, it is obvious, cannot be thus described unless they are known —...

...the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day.' Purgatory. Canto viii1 E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower, Has in her nest...sweet brood, impatient to descry Their wished looks, ai.d to bring home their food, In the fond quest unconscious, of her toil ; She, of the lime prcvenieiit,...

...rages and the goatherd leans Upon his staff, and leaning watches them.' Gary, Purg. C. 27. 'E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has in her nest...spray That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever till the dawn Removeth from the east her eager ken ; — , i 1819.] Dante....

...church. The Saviour asceniU followed by his virgin Mother. The others remain with Saint Peter. . E'EIT as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has, in her nest,...spray, That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever, till the dawn, Removeth from the east her eager ken: So stood the dame...

...church. The Saviour ascends followed by his virgin Mother. The others remain with Saint Peter. E'EN as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has, in her nest,...toil: She, of the time prevenient, on the spray, That overbangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever, till the dawn, Removeth from the...

...his virgin Mother. The others remain with Saint Peter. E'EN as the hird, who midst the leafy hower Has, in her nest, sat darkling through the night, With her sweet hrood; impatient to descry Their wished looks, and to hring home their food, In the fond quest unconscious...

...vaga, Fecimi quale è quei che disiando Altro vorria, e sperando s'appaga." Par. xxiii. 1. " E'en as the bird, who 'midst the leafy bower Has, in her nest,...spray, That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever, till the dawn, Removeth from the east her eager ken : So stood the dame...

...Saviour ascends, followed by his virgin Mother. The others remain with Saint Peter. E'EN as the hird, who midst the leafy bower Has, in her nest, sat darkling...spray, That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever, till the dawn, Removeth from the east her eager ken : So stood the dame...

...• The Saviour ascends, followed by his virgin Mother. The others remain with Saint Peter. E'EN as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has, in her nest,...spray, That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever, till the dawn, Removeth from the east her eager ken : So stood the dame...

...splendors to be revealed, we might say, connecting some passages, and adapting the imagery, " E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has in her nest...spray, That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun ; nor ever till the dawn Removeth from the east her eager ken. Wistfully thus we looked...