 The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how...  The Farmers' Register - Page 243edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's...shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her. Loud quack the ducks, the sea fowl cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless... | |
 | 1836 - 98 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the light red pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's...shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her. Loud quack the ducks, the sea fowls cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1836 - 188 pages
...glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep. Hark 1 how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; • Loud quack the ducks,the peacocks cry ) The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...in halos hid her head ; The walls are damp, the ditches smell ; Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ! Old Betty's...Loud quack the ducks, the sea-fowl cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low... | |
 | John Stevenson Bushnan - 1837 - 350 pages
...a rainbow spaas the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell; Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel* Hark! how the chairs and tables crack; Old Betty's joints are on the rack. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernell. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old BETTY'S...Loud quack the ducks, the sea-fowl cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the Anne. Low... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...watts are damp, the ditches snitll, Clo/d is the pink-ey'd pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tablet crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack : Her corns...shooting pains torment her. And to her bed untimely send her. I "i!ti ynack the ducks, the sea fowl cry, The distant hiUs are looking nigh. How restless... | |
 | 1843 - 408 pages
...night the sun went pale to bed, And spiders from their cobwebs peep. The moon in halos hid her head; Hark! how the chairs and tables crack! Old Betty's...shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her— Loud quack the ducks, the sea-fowl cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...black, the glass is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs peep. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are seeming nigh. How restless are the... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1846 - 226 pages
...a rainbow spans the sky : The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel; Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting... | |
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