The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how... The Farmers' Register - Page 243edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
| 1824 - 496 pages
...own cguntry. AM. EDITOR*. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the piDk-t>y'd pimpernel!. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old BETTY'S...Loud quack the ducks, the sea-fowl cry, The distant hills are looking mgh. How restless are the snorting twine .' The busy flies disturb the kint. Low... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernell. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud <juack the ducks, thepeacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. Ttx walls are damp, the dit ekes sme II, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernel ot wha , 2 nnt with shooting pains torment her, And to her be 1 untimely send her. loud quack the ducks, the sea... | |
| 1863 - 376 pages
...crawling o'er the green ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh ; Hark, how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; And see yon rooks how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, Or seem precipitate to fall... | |
| Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the light red pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's...shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her. Loud quack the ducks, the sea fowls cry. The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...black, the glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the... | |
| 1831 - 584 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky ! The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry,. The distant hills are looking nigh ; How restless are the... | |
| 1832 - 670 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack; Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the... | |
| James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernell. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting... | |
| Luke Howard - 1833 - 416 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell; Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark! how the chairs and tables crack; Old Betty's joints are on the rack. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting... | |
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