 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 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." The great excellence, says Mr. Pennant, of that celebrated... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is • I ill more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds 10 Pour... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping *'er ] + ] + ] + f;unili;ii- grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 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... | |
 | 1831 - 548 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...Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract bis slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous... | |
 | Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 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. THOMSOK. XIII.—HUMAN LIFE. —WHEN Winter spreads his latest... | |
 | E. W - 1831 - 100 pages
...annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk. alight On the warm hearth, then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks and struts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 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." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large of the consideration which the wisest... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 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." From birds, however, he passed to beasts; and talked at large of the consideration which the wisest... | |
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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... 
