 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force. If yet too young , and easily deceiv'd , A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him , piteous of his youth and the short space He has cnjoy'd the vital light of Heaven , Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force. If yet too young, and easily deceiv'd, A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth and the short space He has enjoy'd- the vital light of Heaven, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force. If yet too young, and easily deceivM, A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of Heaven, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion' d to their force. If yet too young, and easily deceiv'd, A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of heav'n, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...slow-dragging some, With various hand proportioned to their force. If yet too young , and easily deceiv'd , At worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod , Him , piteous of his youth and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of Heaven, Soft disengage , and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1804 - 208 pages
...some, With various hand, proportion'd to their force; If yet too young, and easily deceiv'd, A worthies prey scarce bends your pliant rod> Him piteous of his youth, and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of heav'n, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...slow-dragging some, "With various hand proportion'd to their force. If yet too young, and easily deceiv'd, A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of Heaven, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force. If yet too young, and easily deceiv'd, A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of Heaven, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...dragging some, With various hand proporlion'd to their force. If yet too young, and easily deceiv'd, A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth and th.- short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of heaven, Soft disengage, and back into the stream... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...some, With various hand propurlinn'd to their force. If yet too young, und easily dereiv'd, A worlbkss prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth, and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of heav'n, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled... | |
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They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force. 
