 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 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 crumhs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes The sailor Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes to have it, or to use it ill. The danger's much the...ourselves. i90 TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER. What then remains, ibrlh their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 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,... | |
 | 1843 - 184 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 bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening... | |
 | 1844 - 276 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,...more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his tender feet. THOMSON. Ebenezer Elliott, the corn-law rhymer, has a couple of lines, in one of his larger... | |
 | 1844 - 480 pages
...Against the window beau; then brisk alights On the waim hearth ; then, hopping on the floor, Ejres all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...wonders where he Is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feel." THOMSON. THE BLACKCAP Is, by many persons, considered to rank... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 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." A naturalist* mentions a singular proof of the robin's love... | |
 | 1911 - 784 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... | |
 | George Douglas - 1911 - 212 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. The little picture is instinct with life. And very much finer and more highly-finished, in a similar style,... | |
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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... 
