 One alone, the red-breast, sacred to the household gods, 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;...  The Saturday Magazine - Sivu 451840Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 sivua
...sacred held a martin's nest." Thomson, in his Winter, thus mentions the familiarity of this bird : " One alone, The redbreast sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th' embroyling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves, His shiv'ring mates, and pays to... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sivua
...his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The wianowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One...leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His aanual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights Ou the warm hearth... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 sivua
...his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 sivua
...his toil The fowls of Heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim Hi» shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sivua
...his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim of enjoyments, will always yield to the remedies of reason. One of the great arts of escaping sup gode, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 sivua
...and selfish disposition, his seeming humbleness and necessities win our pity in seasons of severity. The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely...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,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 sivua
...boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, 245 The red-breast, sacred to the household-gods, . Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth... | |
 | 1852 - 874 sivua
...his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim ale 's destroy'd th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 sivua
...his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One...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,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 sivua
...his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
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