 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 410 Seiten
...scale to scale Mounting, amidst the Torricellian tube. * While high in air, and poised upon his wings, Unseen, the soft, enamour'd wood-lark runs Through...nest-trees, and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 Seiten
...scale to scale Mounting, amidst the Torricellian tube.* While high in air, and poised upon his wings, Unseen, the soft, enamour'd wood-lark runs Through...nest-trees, and with Sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1851 - 534 Seiten
...high in air, and poised upon his wings, Unseen, the soft, enamour'd woodlark runs * The barometer. Through all his maze of melody ; the brake, Loud 'with...Haunts her tall nest-trees, and with sedulous care Eepairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best... | |
 | 1853 - 390 Seiten
...History of Sclborne." At such times, to quote from the lines above-mentioned — " The cawing Book Anticipates the spring, selects her mate Haunts her tall nest-trees, and with sednlous care Repairs her wicker eyrie." I am of opinion that these unsenwnablc and generally abortive... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 Seiten
...high in air, and poised upon his wings, Unseen, the soft, enamour'd woodlark runs * The larometer. Through all his maze of melody ; the brake, Loud with...nest-trees, and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 532 Seiten
...high in air, and poised upon his wings, Unseen, the soft, enamour'd woodlark runs * The barometer. Through all his maze of melody ; the brake, Loud with...mate, Haunts her tall nest-trees, and with sedulous caro Eepairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-toru. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 Seiten
...Through all his maze of melody; the brake, Loud with the blackbird's bolder note, resounds. Soothed by the genial •warmth, the cawing rook Anticipates...nest-trees, and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 676 Seiten
...ground with their customary grave demeanour. Occasionally in autumn, as White of Selborne remarks, Sooth'd by the genial warmth, the cawing Rook Anticipates the spring, selects her mate, Haunts her tall nests, and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest torn. Similar instances of this unseasonable... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1870 - 536 Seiten
...high in air, and poised upon his wings, TJnseen, the soft, enamour'd woodlark runs * The barometer. Through all his maze of melody ; the brake, Loud with...nest-trees, and with sedulous care Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop... | |
 | Josiah Crampton - 1876 - 678 Seiten
...Through all his maze of melody : the brake Loud with the blackbirds bolder note resounds. " Soothed by the genial warmth, the cawing rook Anticipates...mate, Haunts her tall nest-trees, and with sedulous careRepairs her wicker eyrie, tempest torn. "The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe,... | |
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The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn His mellow glebe, best pledge of future crop : With glee the gardener eyes his smoking beds : E'en pining sickness feels a short relief. The happy schoolboy brings transported forth His... 
