 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 pages
...scorns, and doth the blest surprise, Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet Winter, 246. See likewise a stanza published by Mr. Mason, and originally intended by Gray to have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Kyes all the smiling family askance. And pecks, and starts,...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. Tne foodlcss wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, aod hard... | |
 | James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...annaal visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...wonders where he is: Till, more familiar grown, the table-crnmbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Ponr forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though... | |
 | George Low - 1813 - 260 pages
...visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights • On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The robin never migrates from these isles; is seen through the... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual...consists in his elegant and just descriptions of the (Economy of animals; and the happy use he hath made of natural knowledge in descriptive poetry, shines... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1815 - 170 pages
...annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. Thomson's Seasons, An ADDRESS to the ROBIN. AWAY, pretty Robin,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...visit. Il..ilf-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset... | |
 | 1816 - 338 pages
...visit. Half afraid, he first " Against the window beats ; then brisk alights " On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, " Eyes all the smiling...wonders where he Is ; " Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs " Attract his slender feet." The young Redbreast, when full feathered, may be taken for... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...the floor, BOOK IV. DESCRIPTIVE AND PATHETIC. 277 \^ lives all the smiling family askance, And peck;, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract hU tender feet. THOMSON. A WINTER EVENING. NOW stir (he fire, and close the shatters... | |
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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 o'er... 
