 | Elizabeth Frank - Anecdotes - 1813 - 158 pages
...admiration, To view the structure of this little work, A Bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. Xo tool had he that wrought; no knife to cut; No nail...And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...without any other tools than a beak and two feet. It wins my admiration, To view the structure of lhat little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without....insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, Ami yet how neatly finished! What nice hand With every implement and means of art, And twenty years... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...and, the better to escape observation, the owners never come out or go in while any one is in view. It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that little work, A birfs nest. Mark it well within, without. No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...and constructed with such elegance and neatness, without any other tools than a beak and two feet ! It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that...knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glui! to join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...deposited in an artificial nest, and hatched by the genial warmth of the parent sitting upon them. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...without; No tool had he that wrought; no knife to cat; No-nail to fix; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join: his little beak was all;— And yet how... | |
 | Animals - 1822 - 194 pages
...the following lines to the ingenuity of the Tailor-bird, and the hanging nest of the baya ; Behold a bird's nest ! Mark it well, within, without ! No...bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was nil : And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, Could compass... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...lost, and that one species might not inconveniently interfere with another." — Duncan's Seasons,. " It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that...had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to ni ; no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all | And yet, how neatly finish'd... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...them into the most convenient forms, and to give them a durability proportionate to their wants. " It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that...without, No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, Jf o .nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ! his little beak was all ! And yet how neatly... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...song twitter'd to young-ey'd day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within,...join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd. What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to... | |
 | Education - 1823 - 624 pages
...constructed with so much art, as baffles the utmost human ingenuity to imitate them. Cowper says: " Mark it well, within, without; No tool had he that wrought, no knife to out, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all; . And yet, how... | |
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To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice... 
