 | Abraham Smith - 1839 - 144 pages
...supreme Being by which they are enabled to perform acts of ingenuity far surpassing the art of man. " It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that...• No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert; No glue in join ; his little beak was all ;— And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement... | |
 | William Youatt - Animal rights - 1839 - 238 pages
...complicated and beautiful a nest as some birds construct, but one of which the poet might well say, Behold a bird's nest ! Mark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought it ; no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no needle to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all.... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...nest ! Mark it well within, without ! JVo tool had he that wrought, no knifo to «it, JVo nail to ux, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little...beak was all, And yet how neatly finished! What nice (ШАЛ, With every implement and means of art, Could compasa such another? BOERHAAVE. This celebrated... | |
 | Birds - 1842 - 294 pages
...friends, farewell ! THE BIRD'S NEST. 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 every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to... | |
 | Wood-notes - 1842 - 160 pages
...admiration, To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. i No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail...join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finish'd. What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to... | |
 | Birds - 1842 - 172 pages
...humility. As we look on one of the little fabrics already described, we may well exclaim with Hurdis— It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without:— No art had he that wrought; no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join—his... | |
 | Children's literature - 1843 - 396 pages
...clever they are at their trade of nest-making. It wins my admiration 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. p 145 No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 322 pages
...Whisks by. I love to be awake, and hear His morning song twittered to dawning day. But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of that...nest. Mark it well within, without. No tool had he who wrought; no knife to cut; No nail to fix; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join; his little beak... | |
 | The Bible Christian VOLUME VI.-Third Series - 1844 - 448 pages
...bunglers compared with the little bird. On this subject I may use the words of one of our poets : — " It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that...cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join—bis little beak was all: And yet, how neatly finished!" From the nest, let me now turn your... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1843 - 402 pages
...nest, and its own size, are not likely to draw down a habitation thatdejpends on so slight a tenure. ' It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fin, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join: his beak wus all, And yet how neatly finished ! ' Irish... | |
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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... 
