...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...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...

...household god*, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves Mis shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual...consists in his elegant and just descriptions of the oeconomy of animals ; and the happy use he hath made of natural knowledge in descriptive poetry, shines...

...familiar. Then, brisk, alights 'On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the statling family askance, And pecks, and sta'rts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown., the table cftrms Attract his slender feet." The slow, distinct, and expressive manner in which Mrs. Bonville...

...recognition of the image with which they had been just familiar. Then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crums Attract hit...

...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...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...

...suppress :— 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...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.-. About the beginning of the month, larks (alauda 1 This bird is called Tomi Liden, about Bornholm; Peter...

...the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes alt the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The footlless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset...

...half-doubtful, manner of the robin when he ventures to enter the cottage to pick up the proffered crumbs : " Then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is." The sprightly air of this species, the full dark eye, and the sidelong turn of the head, give an appearance...

...annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; table-cmmbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,...

...annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm henrth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where be is; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slemler beak. Many more familiar verses...