 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Tho'... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1793 - 308 pages
...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family aikance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the .table-crumbs Attract his (lender feet. The foodlefs wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Tho' timorous of heart,... | |
 | James Thomson, Robert Heron - 1793 - 384 pages
...where he is : 'Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his (lender feet. The foodlefs wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Tho' timorous of heart, aud hard befet By death in various forms, dark fnares, and dogs, And more unpitying Men, the garden... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...the window beats ; then , brisk , alights On the warm hearth ; then , hopping o'er the floor , Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks , and starts...wonders where he is : 'Till more familiar grown, the table -crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Tour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.—The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 pages
...beaes ; then brisk alights . On the warm hearth ; then, liopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fouling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The Redbreast generally builds its nest by the roots of trees,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...Against the window heats; then, hrisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor. Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: TiU more familiar grown, the tahle-crumb* Attract his slender feet. The fbodless wilds Pour forth their... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attraft his flender feet. The foodlefs wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Tho' timorous of heart, and hard befet By death in various forms, dark fnares, and dogs, And more unpitying Men, the garden feeks, Urg'd... | |
| |
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... 
