Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet... Youth's Speaker - 59. oldalszerző: George Rhett Cathcart - 1871 - 181 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| 1824 - 496 oldal
...The busy flies disturb the kint. Low o'er the grass the tu- allow wings, The cricket too, how sharps he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whisker 'd jaws. The smoke from chimneys right ascends ; Then spreading, back to earth it bends. The... | |
| 1863 - 376 oldal
...busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how sharp she sings, Puss on the hearth with velvet paws Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws ; The wind, unsteady, veers around, Or settling in the south is found ; The whirling wind the dust... | |
| Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 oldal
...hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how...the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. The smoke from chimneys right ascends ; Then spreading, back to earth it bends. The... | |
| William Hone - 1830 - 878 oldal
...spreading, buck to earth it bendi. The wind unsteady veers around, Or settling in the South is found, Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious Jliet. The glow-worms num'rous, clear and bright, Illum'd the dewy hill last night. At dusk the squalid... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 oldal
...are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings : The cricket, too, how...incautious flies ; The frog has changed his yellow nest, And in a russet coat is drest ; My dog, so altered in his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass... | |
| 1831 - 584 oldal
...too, how loud it sings ! Puss, on the hearth, with velvet pawff, Sits smoothing o'er her whisker'd jaws ; . . ;, Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The sheep were seen at early light Cropping the meads with eager bite ; Though June, the air is cold and... | |
| 1832 - 670 oldal
...The busy flies disturb the kine; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket too, how sharp be sings. Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits,...the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch th' incautious flies. The glow-worms, numerous and bright, Illum'd the dewy dell last night. At dark... | |
| James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 oldal
...hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ? The busy flies disturb the kine; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how...on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er ber whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies;... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 oldal
...hills are lookin' .igh. How restless are the sn<~ ug swine ! The busy flies disturb .e kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how...the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies ; 2E... | |
| Luke Howard - 1833 - 416 oldal
...cricket too, how loud it sings! Puss, on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits smoothing o'er her whisker'd jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise And nimbly catch the incautious flies ; The sheep were seen, at early light, Cropping the meads with eager bite. Though June, the air is cold and... | |
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