Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping... Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry - Página 106por Henry Headley - 1810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 páginas
...thickets leaves HU shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 páginas
...Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm earth ; then hopping o'er the floor Ryes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts,...grown, the table.crumbs Attract his slender feet. The great beauty of that celebrated poet consists in his elegant and just descriptions of the (economy... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit Half-afraid, he first Against the window heats ; own : Th' assassinating wife, the household fiend,...far the blackest there, the traitor-friend. On t* The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
| Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 páginas
...Here the children smiled with pleased recognition of the image with which they had been just familiar. Then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping...the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crums Attract hit... | |
| Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 páginas
...Here the children smiled with pleased recognition of the image with which they had been just familiar. Then, brisk, alights 'On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the statling family askance, And pecks, and sta'rts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown.,... | |
| 1822 - 440 páginas
...quoted but beautiful description of his annual visit we cannot suppress :— Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.-. About the beginning of the month, larks (alauda 1 This bird is called Tomi Liden, about Bornholm; Peter... | |
| 1822 - 278 páginas
...thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man (I is annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The liare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
| 1830 - 492 páginas
...half-doubtful, manner of the robin when he ventures to enter the cottage to pick up the proffered crumbs : " Then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is." The sprightly air of this species, the full dark eye, and the sidelong turn of the head, give an appearance... | |
| James Thomson - 1822 - 174 páginas
...thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On...the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes alt the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...thickets leaves His shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first table-cmmbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
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