 | Theocritus (of Syracuse.) - 1779 - Liczba stron: 414
...hot; " and continue fmging till it fets. Their wings tl are beautiful, being ftreaked with filver, and " marked with brown fpots. The outer wings " are twice as long as the inner, and more va*' negated. They are very numerous in the hot " countries, but have not been found on this " fide... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - Liczba stron: 242
...common grafshopper, and is of a dark green colour. Its wings are beautiful, being Creaked with fiher, and marked with brown fpots. The outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated.' After the Latin term Cicada, the Italians call it Cicala, and the French Cigale. With refpeiSto its... | |
 | 1795 - Liczba stron: 848
...: its wings are beautiful, being ftrc.kcd with Ulver, and marked with brown fpots; the outer wing» are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated ; yet, after the example of Mr. Pope, (fee Iliad 3. ver. too.) \ retain the ufoaj tenu. Ver. 164. Nee gemere aëtiâ ccfiabit turtur... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1810 - Liczba stron: 172
...continue singing till it sets. The wings are streaked as with silver, and marked with brown spots. The outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. Aristotle says, that the Cicada has no mouth, but thrusts out a trunk like a tongue, whereby it sucks... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1819 - Liczba stron: 520
...singing tHl it sets. Their wings are beautiful, being streaked with silver, and marked with brown spots. The outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. They are very numerous in the hot countries, but have not been found on this side the Alps and Cevennes.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Liczba stron: 396
...dark green colour. Its wings are beautiful, being streaked with silver, and marked with brown spots. The outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. After the Latin term Cicada, the Italians call it Cicala, and the French Cigale. JElian concurs with... | |
 | Virgil - 1834 - Liczba stron: 314
...hot, and continues till it sets : their wings are streaked with silver, and marked with brown spots ; the outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. They have not been found, Martyn says, on this side of the Alps and Cevennes. The Athenians wore golden... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse.) - 1839 - Liczba stron: 192
...grows hot. Its wings are beautifully streaked with the colour of silver, and marked with brown spots. The outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. — *EX<>» T&w. Kept up a contention. — 'A o\o\vy¿v. The thrush. So Bindeuiaiin, Drossel. Vossius... | |
 | 1835 - Liczba stron: 780
...singing till it sets. Its wings are beautiful, being streaked with silver, and marked with brown spots ; the outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. In an earlier part of the same poem, Lycidas promises to celebrate by a festival the safe arrival of... | |
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Its wings are beautiful, being streaked with silver, and marked with brown spots ; the outer wings are twice as long as the inner, and more variegated. 