The other birds, named here and in the previous description of the garden, are introduced, as far as I can judge, nearly at random, and with no precision of imagination like that of Aristophanes; but with a sweet childish delight in crowding as many birds as possible into the smallest space. — from Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
delicate in colour and mellowed by a
For expeditions on the lagoons it is always well 168 to choose a pearly, silvery-grey day, when everything is delicate in colour and mellowed by a semi-transparent haze. — from Venice by Dorothy Menpes
There many an hour I have sat to watch; nay, now The brazen disk is cold against my brow, And in my sight a circle of the sea Enlarged to swiftness, where the salt waves flee, And ships in stately motion pass so near That what I see is speaking to my ear: I hear the waves dash and the tackle strain, The canvas flap, the rattle of the chain That runs out thro' the hawse, the clank of the winch Winding the rusty cable inch by inch, Till half I wonder if they have no care, Those sailors, that my glass is brought to bear On all their doings, if I vex them not On every petty task of their rough lot Prying and spying, searching every craft From painted truck to gunnel, fore and aft,— {334} Thro' idle Sundays as I have watch'd them lean Long hours upon the rail, or neath its screen Prone on the deck to lie outstretch'd at length, Sunk in renewal of their wearied strength. — from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges
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