 | 1844 - 480 pages
...Against the window beau; then brisk alights On the waim hearth ; then, hopping on the floor, Ejres all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts,...wonders where he Is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feel." THOMSON. THE BLACKCAP Is, by many persons, considered to rank... | |
 | Sights - 1844 - 104 pages
...; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, THE REDBREAST. Eyes all the family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." And the reason of his course is clear. The insects have disappeared,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 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...grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodiess wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 430 pages
...afraid, he first Against the window beats, then brisk alights On the warm hearth, then hopping o'er th' floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks,...wonders where he is, Till more familiar grown the table erumbs Attract his tender fect." No bird has given rise to more frequent arguments on the subject... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 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. In magicas clausis munitas turribus œdes : Nee miser... | |
 | William Chapman Hewitson - 1846 - 394 pages
...dwellings. " 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." Amongst the oft-recurring memories of the past, there are few... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 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. In magicas clausis munitas turribus aedes : Nee miser... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all his smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and...is — Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs, £55 Attract his slender feet.* The foodless wilds * The habits of the red-breast (Sylvia Bubeada)... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 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 family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his... | |
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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... 
