 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...plow with busy wing the peopled air ? These cleave the crumbling bark for insect food, Those dip their crooked beak in kindred blood ; Some haunt the rushy...silver plumage in the floods ; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door; Wait the known call, and find protection... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1816 - 316 pages
...declare That plough with busy wing the peopled air? These, cleave the crumbling hark for insect-food; Those, dip the crooked beak in kindred blood{ Some, haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; Some, hathe their silver-plumage in the floods} Some, fly to man, his household-gods implore, And gather... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...ice in the same manner as upon land. There they sleep ; there too they sometimes hatch their young *. Who the various nations can declare That plough with...silver plumage in the floods; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door, Wait the known call, and find protection... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...and others prefer the vicinity of man, and take shelter in his chimnies, or in his hospitable eaves. But who the various nations can declare That plough...Some haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; Some ba_the their silver plumage in the floods ; Some fly to man, his houshold gods implore, And gather... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pages
...declare That plough with busy wing1 the peopled air? These, cleave the crumbling bark for insect-food ; Those, dip the crooked beak in kindred blood ; Some,...the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; Some, bathe their silver-plumage in the floods; Some, fly to man, his household-gods implore, And gather round his hospitable... | |
 | 1820 - 190 pages
...plow with busy wing the peopled air ? These cleave the crumbling bark forinsect food, Those dip their crooked beak in kindred blood ; Some haunt the rushy...silver plumage in the floods ; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door ; Wait the known call, and find protection... | |
 | Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1820 - 136 pages
...plough with busy wing the peopled air ? These cleave the crumbling hark for insect food; Those dip their crooked beak in kindred blood ; Some haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; Some hathe their silver plumage in the floods; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 pages
...declare That plough with busy wing the peopled air? These, cleave the crumbling bark for insect-food; Those, dip the crooked beak in kindred blood; Some,...silver plumage in the floods; Some, fly to man, his household-gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door, Wait the known call, and find protection... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pages
...These cleave the crumbling bark for insect food ; Those dtp the crooked beak in kindred blood; Sonte haunt, the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; Some bathe...silver plumage in the floods; Some fly to man, his household gods implore,. And gather round his hospitable door,, Wait the known call, and find protection... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 pages
...had their eyes open, and were not deprived of the power of reasoning. CHAP. VII. • • • SIRDS. " But who the various nations can declare, That plough...; Some bathe their silver plumage in the floods." THE Ostrich, the Emu, and the Cassowary, are not only remarkable, by reason of their superiority of... | |
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Those dip their crooked beak in kindred blood : Some haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; Some bathe their silver plumage in the floods ; Some fly to man, his household gods implore, And gather round his hospitable door, Wait the known call, and find... 
