 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 - Strana 106autor/autoři: Henry Headley - 1810Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1829 - 494 str.
...very exact and animated description of this bird in the following lines : — -Half afraid, he first Against the window beats : then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping on the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 str.
...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...wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 str.
...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...wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." The great excellence, says Mr. Pennant, of that celebrated... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 str.
...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...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is • I ill more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds 10 Pour... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 str.
...thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first -prize *'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 str.
...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...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | 1831 - 548 str.
...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...Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract bis slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous... | |
 | Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 str.
...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...wonders where he is Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. THOMSOK. XIII.—HUMAN LIFE. —WHEN Winter spreads his latest... | |
 | E. W - 1831 - 100 str.
...to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk. alight On the warm hearth, then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and struts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 str.
...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...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large of the consideration which the wisest... | |
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