 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 ページ
...sunshine, and darting along the streams ; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than...quicker than my eye could glance. I returned ; they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1849 - 194 ページ
...with gold and purple; Bmtgks, (bowz.) — Verdure, (vfadyflre.) — Jfipped, § 22 their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than...quicker than my eye could glance. I returned ; they were brushed into the pool , they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow- had devoured them... | |
 | Robert Connel - 1853 - 210 ページ
...sun'shine, and darting along the stream ; their wings glit'tered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green em'e-rald ; they were more nu'mer-ous...than my eye could glance. — I returned : they were brushed into the pool ; they were per'ish-ing with the eve'ning breeze; the swallow had de-voured'... | |
 | Salem Town - 1856 - 420 ページ
...glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than 1 could count ; their motions were quicker than my eye could glance. I returned ; they were brushed into the pool; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1861 - 228 ページ
...glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than 1 could count; their motions were quicker than my eye could glance. I returned ; they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1864 - 128 ページ
...sunshine, and darting along the streams; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald : they were more numerous than...than my eye could glance — I returned, they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1868 - 124 ページ
...sunshine, and darting along the streams; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald : they were more numerous than...than my eye could glance — I returned, they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 322 ページ
...sunshine, and darting along the streams ; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than...quicker than my eye could glance. I returned : they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1875 - 114 ページ
...sunshine, and darting along the streams; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald: they were more numerous than...than my eye could glance — I returned, they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze; the swallow had devoured them... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 ページ
...sunshine, and darting along the streams ; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald ; they were more numerous than...quicker than my eye could glance. I returned : they were brushed into the pool ; they were perishing with the evening breeze ; the swallow had CHAT. IV. DESCRIPTIVE... | |
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I have seen the insects sporting in the sunshine, and darting along the streams; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green emerald: they were more numerous than I could count; their motions were quicker than my eye... 
