 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1835 - 496 pages
...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 o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...their smart and lively actions. " The redbreast pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid lie first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...• — - „ AgRiteKthe window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And...pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is^» . Till uspre familiar grown, the table crumbs •— ^if ~ vUgatt his slender feet. The foodless wilds "*^«*... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...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 o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...afraid at first Against the w iudow beats ; theu brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts, and \ronders where he is ! Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." Winter... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...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 o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askaunce, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 738 pages
...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 o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance. And picks and starts, and wonders where he is.... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...famished wolves descending the Appenines, scatters its hues over the little robin, that, half-afraid, " Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance." Cowper's scenes from nature delight by their... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...famished wolves descending the Apennines, scattered its hues over the little robin, that, half afraid, — Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the...on the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance. Cowper's sketches please from their association and their truth, without possessing the poetical illumination... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 pages
...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 o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
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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... 
