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 o'er... Thomson and Pollok: Containing The Seasons - Seite 126von James Thomson - 1858 - 438 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Thomson - 1763 - 458 Seiten
...trufted Man His annual vifit. Half afraid, he firft Againft the window beats ; then, brifk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the failing family afkance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is: • Till more familiar grown,... | |
| James Thomson - 1766 - 266 Seiten
...then, hopping o'er the floor, I 3 Eyes. Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is : 'Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attraft his flender feet. The foodlefs wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Tho' timorous... | |
| James Thomson - 1769 - 218 Seiten
...effr His annual vifit. Half- afraid , he firft 250 .Againft die window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then , hopping o'er the floor , Eyes all the fmiling family askance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is: 'Till more familiar grown,... | |
| James Thomson - 1774 - 272 Seiten
...trufted Man His annual vifit. Half-afraid, he firft, 2$o Againft the window beats ; then, briflc, alights On the warm hearth'; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is r 'Till more familiar grown,... | |
| Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 530 Seiten
...trufted Man His annual vifit. Half afraid, he firft Againft the window beats ; then, brifk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the 'floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afltance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is : 'Till more familiar grown,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 628 Seiten
...where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 155 Attraft his flender feet. The foodlefs wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard befet By death in various forms, dark fnares, and dogs, • And more unpitying men, the garden feeks,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 304 Seiten
...trufted man His annual vifit. Half-afraid, he fa A 250 Agamft the window beats ; then, brifk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown,... | |
| Henry Headley - 1787 - 212 Seiten
...trufted man . His annual vifit. Half afraid, he firft Againft the window beats; then brifk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, ' And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown,... | |
| John Bell - 1787 - 510 Seiten
...trafted Man His annual vifit. Half-afraid, he firft 250 Againft the window beats, then, brifk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, And pceki, and ftarts, and wonders where he is! Till more familiar grown, the... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 Seiten
...trufted Man His annual vifit. Half-afraid, he firft Againft the window beats ; then, brifk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the... | |
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