 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...AgRiteKthe 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^» . Till uspre familiar grown, the table crumbs •— ^if ~ vUgatt his slender feet. The foodless wilds "*^«*... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and starts, and \ronders where he is ! Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet." Winter birds still resort to the shores of Britain : jacks and common snipes; green, dusky, and red-legged... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 pages
...alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And picks, and starts, and 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,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askaunce, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender beak." " Larks," says Forster, " now congregate, and fly to the warm... | |
 | 1837 - 738 pages
...alights On the warm hearth, then hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family askance. And picks and starts, and wonders where he is. Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. MOKS FATALIS. Salve, quse placidi grata snb imagine Somni Subrepens,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1841 - 352 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." But the pastoral solitudes in which Thomson was reared, if not born, told him that, in the season of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes on (vers \ 4 feel. The food less wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare. Though timorous of heart, and... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1842 - 378 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,...table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds 2)0 S-'.TO Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...the window boats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor Eyes all thr smiling family askance. And pecks, and starts, and...more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his ilenvler feet. THOMSON. THE Robin Red-breast is a universal favourite. Hii familiarity and confidence... | |
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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... 
