...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 —...

...he hear 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...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,...

...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...

...awaiting the 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 sat darkling through the night, With her swset brood ; impatient to descry Their wished looks, and to brine; home their food In the fond quest...

...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 —...

...hi* rhnrch. The Saviour ascend*, 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, eat darkling through the night, With her sweet brood ; impatient to descry Their wished looks, and...

...splendours 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...fond quest unconscious of her toil : She of the time prevcnient, on the spray That overhangs their couch, with wakeful ga/c Expects the suu ; nor ever till...

...connecting sonic passages, and adapting the imagery, — 'E'en as the bird who mid.it the Italy liowir Has in her nest sat darkling through the night, "With...wished looks, and to bring home their food In the fond qxicst unconscious of her toil : She. of the time prcvciiicnt, on the spray That overhangs their couch,...

...and rapt, Became as one desirous to obtain, 13 And solaced in but hoping what he lackt.' Cary : — ' E'en as the bird who midst the leafy bower Has, in...Their wished looks, and to bring home their food, 5 In the fond quest, unconscious of her toil : She, of the time prevenient, on the spray That overhangs...

...appears and illumines the heavenly sphere. Beatrice is looking southward, from whence it approaches. E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has, in...Their wished looks, and to bring home their food, * Paradise, xxii. 34 In the fond quest unconscious of her toil : She, of the time prevenient, on the...