 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry ; To see the feeding bat glance through the wood...protracts his chattering song ; While high in air and pois'd upon his wings, Unseen, the soft-enamor'd woodlark sings : These, NATURE'S works, the curious... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 396 pages
...buzzing wing7jor the shrill cricket cry ; - «;Jo see the feeding bat glance through the wood ;J °' To catch the distant falling of the flood ; While o'er the cliff th' awaken'd churn-owl hung & Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song; While'high in air and pois'd upon his wings,... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...hear the drowsy dor come rushing hy With huzzing wing, or hear the cricket cry. To see the feeding hat glance through the wood. To catch the distant falling of the flood , While o'er the cliff the awaken'd churn-owl hung, Through the still gloom protracts his chattering son; : While high in... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...wing, or the shrill cricket cry ; ... To Recovery from Sickness. 71 To see the feeding bat glance thro' the wood ; To catch the distant falling of the flood...; While o'er the cliff th' awaken'd churn-owl hung Thro' the still gloom protracts his chatt'ring song ; While high in air, and pois'd upon his wings,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...hear the drowsy dor come rushing by With huzzing wing, or hear the cricket cry. To see the feeding hat glance through the wood. To catch the distant falling of the flood; While o'er the cliff the awaken'd churn-owl hung. Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song: While high in air,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...landscape sinks in night , To hear the drowsy dor come rusliing by With bussing wing, or hear the cricket cry : To see the feeding bat glance through the wood,...distant falling of the flood; While o'er the cliff the awaken'd churn-owl hung, Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song : While high in... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...atmosphere, up springs The ponderous Mercury, from scale to scale Mounting, amidst the Torricellian tube*. While high in air, and poised upon his wings Unseen, the soft, enamoured woodlark runs Thro' all his maze of melody; — the brake Loud with the blackbird's bolder... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 286 pages
...leaf-sheltered, let us stray, To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry; To see the feeding bat glance through the wood,...distant falling of the flood ; While o'er the cliff th' awakened churn-owl hung, Through the still gloom portracts his chattering song." This bird passes only... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 284 pages
...leaf-sheltered, let us stray, To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry; To see the feeding bat glance through the wood,...distant falling of the flood ; While o'er the cliff th' awakened churn-owl hung, Through the still gloom portracts his chattering song." This bird passes only... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket* cry ; To see the feeding bat glance through the wood...distant falling of the flood ; While o'er the cliff' the awaken'd churn-owl hung, Thro' the still gloom protracts his chattering song ; While, high in air,... | |
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