| 1816 - 338 páginas
...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...smiling family askance, " And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he Is ; " Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs " Attract his slender feet." The... | |
| James Thomson - 1816 - 256 páginas
...His shivering mates, and pays to trusted mail His annual visit. Il..ilf-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth;...smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 páginas
...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 AND PATHETIC. 277 \^ lives all the smiling family askance, And peck;, and starts,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 páginas
...leaves HU 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;...smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is: Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless... | |
| James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 páginas
...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...smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit Half-afraid, he first Against the window heats ; own : Th' assassinating wife, the household fiend,...far the blackest there, the traitor-friend. On t* wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet The foodless... | |
| Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 páginas
...Here the children smiled with pleased recognition of the image with which they had been just familiar. Then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping...the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table crums Attract hit... | |
| Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 páginas
...Here the children smiled with pleased recognition of the image with which they had been just familiar. Then, brisk, alights 'On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the statling family askance, And pecks, and sta'rts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown.,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...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;...smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. The foodless... | |
| 1822 - 440 páginas
...beautiful description of his annual visit we cannot suppress :— Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth...smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.-. About... | |
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