 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...together heard What time the grey fly winds her futtry horn, . Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten.; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...both together 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 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...together 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 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...with the frefh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation...meaning is fo uncertain and remote, that it is never (ought becaufe it cannot be known when it is found. Among the flocks, and copfes, and flowers, appear... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...We " drove afield," &c ? ' We know that ' they never drove afield, and that they * had no flocks to batten ; and though • it be allowed that the reprefentation...fought, becaufe it cannot be ' known when it is found.' Cowley fpeaks of Hervey in propria ferfona, Milton is pro tempore a ruftick poet ; one therefore mud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...both together 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,...that they had no flocks no batten ; and though it he allowed that tfie reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning Is fo uncertain and remote,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...both together 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 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is... | |
 | 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 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...time the gtey fly winds her sultry horn/ Battening oar flocks with the fresh dews of night. ft Vnow that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten ? "J though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true anmg is so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...both together 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 had no flocks to batten ; and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is... | |
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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... 
