 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...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, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...pays to trusted man His annual visit Half-afraid, he first Against the window heats ; then, brisk, assinating wife, the household fiend, And, far the blackest there, the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 pages
...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 smiling family askance, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 pages
...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.,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...pays to trusted man (I is annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...annual visit we cannot suppress :— Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is! Till more familiar grown, the... | |
 | William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - English poetry - 1824 - 102 pages
...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 Eyes all the smiling family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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. Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, *nd starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, smiling family askanee, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is ! Till, more familiar grown,... | |
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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; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping... 
