 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a...And as to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles of all hues, will keep out of my way, 1 have no objection to any of the rest; on the contrary, in whatever... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sivua
...of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should noi indeed think of keeping в goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour,...of his melody ; but a goose upon a common, or in a farm yard, is no bad performer. And as to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed of all hues,... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sivua
...of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not in-deed thinkof keeping s oetical farm yard, ie no bad performer. And as to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed of all hues,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 524 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please Xne, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a...parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a com•non, or in a farm-yard, is no bad performer ; and as to in?ects, if the black beetle, and beetles... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 360 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me without an exception. I should not. indeed, think of keeping a goose in...to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed of all hues, will keep out of my way, I have no objection to any of the rest; on the contrary, in whatever... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 sivua
...exception. I should not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common...to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed of all hues, will keep out of my way, I have no objection to any of the rest ; on the contrary, in... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 438 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me without an exception. I should not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common or in a farm-yard is no bad performer... | |
 | Art - 1858 - 210 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in...to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed of all hues, will keep out of my way, I have no objection to any of the rest; on the contrary, in whatever... | |
 | 1860 - 784 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me without one exception. untain, and from the summit of which * He alludes to the new mode of Cranking. parlor for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 sivua
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me without one exception. I should not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody ; but a goose upon William Oowper to R&v. John Newton— Gratitude... | |
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I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please... 
