 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine. Or the twisted eglantine ; , While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness...the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn, From the side of some hoar hill,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...at my window, bid good morrow Through the sweetbriar or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : \Vhile the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness...to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames-before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn From the side... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doih riae : While the eoek, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the harn-door, Stately struts his dames hefore : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheer! i rouse the... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweethrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the... | |
 | James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 pages
...crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer." — URYDEN. MILTON has also finely described this hird. " While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin; And to the stack, or the harn door, Stoutly struts his dames before." — L'ALLEGRo. Of the game of cocle-fighting, I can only... | |
 | James Jennings - Birds - 1828 - 526 pages
...crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer." — DRVOEN. MILTON has also finely described this bird. "While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin; And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames hefore." — L'ALLEGRO. Of the game of cock-fighting, I can only... | |
 | 1829 - 446 pages
...custom of beginning the chase at day-break, instead of the late hour at present adopted, and says, now The Hounds and Horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, To the wild woods echoing shrill. Having been as diffuse in our observations on the natural appearances... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...of a speckled reddish-brown colour. They are reckoned a very delicate food. THE COMMON COCK. While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin ; And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts, his dames before. MILTON. THIS bird is so well known, that it would be lost... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...rose. Shalupton, A people. Whom Ireland sent from loughs and forests hoar. Fairfax Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn. From the side of some Aoar hill Through the high wood echoing shrill. ttillon. L'AUegn. He grows a wolf, bis hoarineu remains,... | |
 | 1829 - 442 pages
...custom of beginning the chase at day-break, instead of the late hour at present adopted, and says, now The Hounds and Horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the aide of some hoar hill, To the wild woods echoing shrill. Having been as diffuse in our observations... | |
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Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or... 
