 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 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,...wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping *'er the floor, Eyes an f;unili;ii- grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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, and wonders where he is • I ill more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds 10 Pour... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 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... | |
 | 1831 - 548 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,...Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract bis slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous... | |
 | Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 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. THOMSOK. XIII.—HUMAN LIFE. —WHEN Winter spreads his latest... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 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,...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large of the consideration which the wisest... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 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,...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large of the consideration which the wisest... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 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. Such are a few of the points of attraction which this... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 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,...wonders where he is: Till, more familiar grown, the tahle crumhs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Ponr fnrth their hrown inhahitants. The hare,... | |
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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... 
