 ... enough for them to charm the sight and the smell, must have names, too, to delight the ear. All these are wanting in. America. Here are, indeed, birds, which bear the name of robin, blackbird, thrush, and goldfinch ; but, alas ! the thing at Westminster...  A Year's Residence in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of ... - Page 66by William Cobbett - 1819 - 610 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1818 - 628 pages
...goldfinch ; but, alas ! the thing at Westminster has, in like' manner, the name of parliament, and speaks the voice of the people, whom it pretends to...wholly passed over here. In the first place, as to myself, I have always had excellent health ; but, during a year, in England, I used to have a cold... | |
 | William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1819 - 630 pages
...and goldfinch; but, alas ! the 'thing at Westminster has, in like manner, the name of parliament, and speaks the voice of the people, whom it pretends to...wholly passed over here. In the first place, as to myself, I have always had excellent health ; but, during a year, in England, I used to have a cold... | |
 | William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1822 - 384 pages
...and goldfinch; but, alas! the thing at Westminster has, in like manner, the name of parliament, and speaks the voice of the people, whom it pretends to...wholly passed over here. In the first place, as to myself, I have always had excellent health; but, during a year, in England, I used to have a cold or... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 742 pages
...goldfinch and all, but, alas ! the thing at Westminster has, in like manner, the name of Parliament, and speaks the voice of the people whom it pretends to...represent, in much about the same degree that the blackbird speaks the voice of its namesake in England. And always, when I was in America, I used to say to myself,... | |
 | H. Cotton Minchin - English literature - 1928 - 270 pages
...goldfinch and all, but, alas ! the thing at Westminster has, in like manner, the name of Parliament, and speaks the voice of the people whom it pretends to...represent, in much about the same degree that the blackbird speaks the voice of its namesake in England. And always, when I was in America, I used to say to myself,... | |
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