No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half... Lives of Sacred Poets - Page 310by Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...fupprefs'd. Pleab'd with his folitude, and flitting light, From fpray to fpray, where'er he r:lls, he fhakes, From many a twig, the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillnefs, accnmpany'd with founds fo foft, Channs more than filence. Meditation... | |
| William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1801 - 312 pages
...suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitudes, and flitting light, From spray to spray, shaking where'er he rests, From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompany'd by sounds to soft," charmed Jacintha even more than total... | |
| John Stoddart - 1801 - 402 pages
...than once reminded most fccibly of that beautifully descriptive passage, in the "ask : " The redbreast warbles still ; but is content With slender notes and more than half supprest Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests, he shaks... | |
| 1802 - 302 pages
...redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes,, and more than hall' suppreso'd : Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes 80 From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness,... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress*d : Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes,...of ice> That' tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes,...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wherever he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| 1801 - 454 pages
...Witt slender notes, and more than half suppres't: Pleas'd with his solitude ; and flitting light f From spray to spray, where'er he rests he, shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. p »«•«*****».. » ^ -Rills that... | |
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