 That age or injury has hollow'd deep, Where, on his bed of wool and matted leaves, He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and at once, swift as...  Letters from Alabama - Page 126by Philip Henry Gosse - 1859 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play: He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beach; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps...of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...of play : He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech ; there whisks hU brush, And perks his ears, and stamps and cries aloud,...of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit Tor human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...love-ditty for my near approach. Drawn from his refuge in some lonely elm, That age or injury has hollowed deep, Where, on his bed of wool and matted leaves,...stamps and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighbouring bceeh ; there wisks his brtish, And perks his ears, and stamps and cries aloud,. With all the prettiness of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...He sees me, and at once, swift as a hird, Ascends the neisjhh'ring heech ; there whisks his hrush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With...of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as heing void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play: lie sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears,...feign'd alarm, . And anger insignificantly fierce. 320 The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...KINGCUPS IN THE "YELLOW MBAD._ BookVL IiOTTOOK - PCBI^I8HBD JCTTR 1.181O -BV JOHN SHAKPB.PICCADHJX And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With...prettiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly tierce. ' The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...pert, and full of play ; He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beach ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps and cries alotul, With all the prettiness of fcign-'d alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. Tiie heart is... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...pert, and full of play ; He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beach ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps...of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...of play: He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech; there whisks bit brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud,...of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
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