 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1799 - 338 pages
...leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards releafe The tangled knots, and fmooth the ravell'd fleece; Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line ; Slow, with foft lips, the whirling Can acquires The tender fkeins, and wraps in... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 654 pages
...with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth rcwlving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd...with soft lips the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move, And these retain,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 650 pages
...rcwlving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravcll'J fleece ; Ne* r Next moves the ¡fon hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms...with soft lips the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires; With quickcn'd pace iiiccesiive roilers move, And these retain,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 652 pages
...release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece ; t moves the iron hand with fingers fiue, Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line ; Slow with soft lips the whirling can acquires The leader skeins, and wraps in rising spires ; With qnicken'd pice in tccuive rollers move, And these... | |
 | Richard Warner - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1802 - 332 pages
...the monarch spins. First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece j Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line J Slow... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1806 - 336 pages
...leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards releafe The tangled knots, and fmooth the ravell'd fleece ; Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line; Slow, with foft lips, the whirling Can acquires The tender. fkeins, and wraps in... | |
 | David Peter Davies - Derbyshire (England) - 1811 - 758 pages
...monarch spins. — First with nice eye emerging Naiades cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled...with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line ; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and warps in... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Great Britain - 1816 - 494 pages
...Darwin: " First with nice eye, emerging Naiads cull, From leathery poos, the vegetable wool: With wiery teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and...with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line. Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...than in prose : First, with nice eye, emerging maidens cull From leathery pods, the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the revell'd fleece ; Next, moves the iron hand with fingers fine,: Combs the -wide card, and forms the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1821 - 304 pages
...sure, that you will understand them all; but I am sure, that you will understand more of them to day, than you could have understood yesterday. Before you...fleece: Next moves the iron hand, with fingers fine, v Combs the wide card, and forms th' eternal line; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires... | |
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First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the... 
