 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On...wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 255 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English poetry - 1793 - 308 pages
...pays to trufted Man His annual vifit. Half-afraid, he firft Againft the window beats; then, bri(k, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family aikance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...household gods, Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky , In joyless fields, and thorny thickets , leaves His shivering mates , and pays to trusted man His...where he is : 'Till more familiar grown, the table -crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Tour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare ,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...household gods, Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual...wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.—The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...household gods, Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual...wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. — The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...pays to trusted Man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window heats; then, hrisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the...askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: TiU more familiar grown, the tahle-crumb* Attract his slender feet. The fbodless wilds Pour forth their... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...beaes ; then brisk alights . On the warm hearth ; then, liopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fouling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders...where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet. The Redbreast generally builds its nest by the roots of trees, in... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...pays to trufted Man His annual vifit. Half-afraid, he lit II Againft the window beats ; then, brifk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the fmiling family afkance, And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...-leaves His shivering mate:-:, nnd pays to trusted Man His annual visit. H:iU'-.-.j'ruid. lie ih'it 250 Against the window beats, then, brisk, alights On...hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smilmg family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ! Till more familiar grown, the... | |
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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... 
