| William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...fupprefs'd. Pleab'd with his folitude, and flitting light, From fpray to fpray, where'er he r:lls, he fhakes, From many a twig, the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillnefs, accnmpany'd with founds fo foft, Channs more than filence. Meditation... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 402 pages
...I was more than once reminded most fccibly of that beautifully descriptive passage, in the "ask : " The redbreast warbles still ; but is content With slender notes and more than half supprest Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests, he shaks... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - Irish fiction - 1801 - 312 pages
...suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitudes, and flitting light, From spray to spray, shaking where'er lie rests, From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompany 'd by sounds so soft," charmed Jacintha even more than... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. O 2 The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress*d : Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 73 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes,, and more than hall' suppreso'd : Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path' for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wherever he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...noise is here, or none that hmders thought. Tire redbreast warbles still, but is content Withslender notes, and more than half suppressed; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light Fiom spr?.y to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That'... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : *' The red.breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to (pray, where'er he rests, he... | |
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