| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...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,...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 páginas
...thoray thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, le copper-prize *'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
| Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 páginas
...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...grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. THOMSOK. XIII.—HUMAN LIFE. —WHEN Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...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,...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,... | |
| 1831 - 548 páginas
...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,...wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract bis slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
| E. W - 1831 - 100 páginas
...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.... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 páginas
...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...grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." THOMSON. Such are a few of the points of attraction which this race possesses : without expatiating... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 páginas
...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,...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 páginas
...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,...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large... | |
| James Thomson - 1836 - 200 páginas
...mates, and pays to trusted man Hifwmgiial visit. Half-afraid, he first— • — - „ AgRiteKthe window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth...pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is^» . Till uspre familiar grown, the table crumbs •— ^if ~ vUgatt his slender feet. The foodless wilds "*^«*... | |
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