| Migratory birds - Birds - 1847 - 74 pages
...roots, such as are ofien seen in rocky lanes, curiously interlaced together : " No tool had she who wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; her little beak was all ; And yet how nicely finished ! What neat hand, With every implement, and... | |
| Thomas Miller - Birds - 1847 - 140 pages
...entitled " The Village Curate," written about half a century ago, in describing a bird's nest, has said, " 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 neatly... | |
| 1847 - 412 pages
...adhesion cannot be obliterated from the wood-work of a house without the application of mop and brush. " It wins my admiration To view the structure of that little work, Yon bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut ; No nail... | |
| Bertie (fict.name.) - Children - 1849 - 134 pages
...bird's nest, Ernie?" " Oh! yes, mamma, often." " Well, — one of our wisest and best poets says — " It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...insert ; No glue to join : his little beak was all, — AnoT yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and mean of art, And twenty... | |
| Electronic journals - 1874 - 714 pages
...work. A bird's nest. Mark it well, witbin, without ; No tool had be that wrought, no knife to cut, Ko nail to fix, no bodkin to insert. No glue to join : his little beak wnt all, And yet how neatly finish 'd ! What nice band, With every implement and means of art, And... | |
| William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...adhesion cannot be obliterated from the wood-work of a house without the application of mop and brush. " It wins my admiration To view the structure of that little work, Yon bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut, No... | |
| Children's poetry - 1850 - 156 pages
...incense it brings to your bower, If its life be a short one, 'tis sweet to the close. BIRD'S NEST. Behold a bird's nest ! Mark it well, within, without ; No...And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With all the implements of art, Could make me such another ? I thought my branch of coral A pretty shrub... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...all the dread magnificence of heaven — Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven? 98. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No ghie to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet how nicely finish'd. What nice hand, With every implement... | |
| 1850 - 536 pages
...of construction. The following lines will accordingly be appropriate to the subject before us: — "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... | |
| Ireland. National Education Board - Textbooks - 1851 - 368 pages
...meet with animal natures approaching in appearance very near to the vegetables which preceded them. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that...glue to join; his little beak was all; And yet how nicely finish'd ! What nice hand, "With every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship... | |
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