 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm henrth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where be is; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slemler beak. Many more familiar verses... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 pages
...Against the window beats: then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping on 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." Peacham says, " January should be clad all in white, like the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askanee, And peeks, table-erumbs Attraet his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 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 - 1826 - 438 pages
...Against the window beats; then , brisk , »lighls On the warm hearth; 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 fondless wilds Pour forth their brown inhahitants. Th,s hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 430 pages
..., brisk , aligbts On thè warm hearth; then, hopping o'er thè floor, Eyos ali thè smiling furnily askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, thè table-crumbs Attract bis stender feet; The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inbabitants.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 176 pages
...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders whore he is ; Till, more, familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless 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... | |
 | 1827 - 290 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,...w*onders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...Against the window beats : then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping on the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is, '1 ill, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. An old Latin proverb tells... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 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 great excellence, says Mr. Pennant, of that celebrated... | |
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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... 
