| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...regardful of th' 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 the floor , Eyes all the smiling... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...regardful of th' 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 the floor, Eyes all the smiling... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...regardful of th' 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 the floor, Eyes all the smiling... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...regardful of th' 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 the floor, Eyes all the smiling... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...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 earth ; then hopping o'er the floor Eyes all the smiling family... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Birds - 1815 - 170 pages
...the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickers, leaves His shivering mates, and pays tp trusted Man His 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... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shiv'ring 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 the floor, BOOK IV. DESCRIPTIVE... | |
| Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...regardful of th' 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 the floor, " Eyes all the smiling... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit Half-afraid, But hid the dagger underneath the gown : Th' assassinating wife, the household fiend, And, o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is... | |
| William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - English poetry - 1824 - 102 pages
...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 the floor Eyes all the smiling family... | |
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