 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...living coils, and left they (hould expire, With leaves and barks (he feeds her infant-fire : It fmokr . and then with trembling breath (he blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arofe. With brmh-uoiul and with chips (he ftirngthens thefe, And adds at Uft the boughs of rotten trees.... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...expire, "With leaves and barks she feeds her infant-fire ; It smokes, and then with trembling breathshe blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus formed, she sets... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 490 pages
...expire, With leaves and barks she feeds her infant-fire ; It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus formed, she sets... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...expire, With leaves and barks she feeds her infant-fire: It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brush-wood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus form'd, she sets... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...expire, With leaves and barks she feeds her infant-fire: It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brush-wood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus t'orm'd, she sets... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...expire, With leaves arid hark she feeds her infant fire : It smokes; and then, with trembling breath, she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose ; With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten tre«s. The fire thus form'd, she-sets... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 496 pages
...expire, With leaves and barks she feeds her infant-fire ; Itsmokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus form'd, she sets... | |
 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...but here goes Dryden's version : — " With leaves and bark he feeds the infant fire; It smokeg — and then, with trembling breath, he blows, Till in...at last the trunks of rotten trees. The fire thus form'd, he sets the kettle on." The day's march, moreover, is one scene of excitement ; each man putting... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 338 pages
...no With leaves and barks she feeds her infant fire : It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. 55 The fire thus form'd, she sets... | |
 | Ovid - Didactic poetry, Latin - 1833 - 330 pages
...expire, With leaves and bark she feeds her infant fire : It smokes; and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. 961 The fire thus form'd, she sets... | |
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It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus formed, she sets the kettle on... 
