 | George Low - 1813 - 272 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,...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The robin never migrates from these isles ; is seen through... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm earth ; then hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts,...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The great beauty of that celebrated poet consists in his elegant and just descriptions of the (Economy... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1815 - 170 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,...wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. Thomson's Seasons, An ADDRESS to the ROBIN. AWAY, pretty Robin,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 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... | |
 | 1816 - 338 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,...wonders where he Is ; " Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs " Attract his slender feet." The young Redbreast, when full feathered, may be taken for... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...the floor, BOOK IV. DESCRIPTIVE AND PATHETIC. 277 \^ lives all the smiling family askance, And peck;, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract hU tender feet. THOMSON. A WINTER EVENING. NOW stir (he fire, and close the shatters... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 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, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Against the window heats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes e, the traitor-friend. On t* Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more... | |
 | Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 pages
...familiar. Then, brisk, alights 'On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the statling family askance, And pecks, and sta'rts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown., the table cftrms Attract his slender feet." The slow, distinct, and expressive manner in which Mrs. Bonville... | |
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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... 
