 | William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - English poetry - 1824 - 102 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...the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...floor. Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, *nd starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 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 henrth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...joyless fields and thorny thiekets leaves His shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. askanee, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is ! Till, more familiar grown, the table-erumbs... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Emblems - 1825 - 414 pages
...clamorous joy to welcome in the day, This consecrated day, To Mirth and Indolence." " The Red-breast 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;... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...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. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 438 pages
...trusted Man His annual visit. Hu It-afraid, he first Against the window beats; then , brisk , »lighls On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor,...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet, The fondless wilds Pour forth their brown inhahitants. Th,s hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 176 pages
...thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk: alights On...family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders whore he is ; Till, more, familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 430 pages
..., brisk , aligbts On thè warm hearth; then, hopping o'er thè floor, Eyos ali thè smiling furnily askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, thè table-crumbs Attract bis stender feet; The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inbabitants.... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...And much he laughs. nor reeks the storm that blows Without, and rattles on his humble roof. p. 161. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then,...w*onders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
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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... 
