Note 30 — WINTER:[1]
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The image of the birds listening with their wings suspended in mid-air is striking, and, I trust, new.—Ruffhead.
This circumstance of the lark suspending its wings in mid-air is highly beautiful, because there is a veri similitudo in it, which is not the case where a waterfall is made to be suspended by the power of music.—Bowles.