No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppressed. Poems - Side 161av William Cowper - 1819Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| John Stoddart - 1801 - 402 sider
...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 - 1801 - 312 sider
...music, sighing as it goes ;" where no other noise was heard, save the faint warble of the red-breast, content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitudes, and flitting light, From spray to spray, shaking where'er he rests, From many a twig the... | |
| 1802 - 302 sider
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all iis length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, ' ' intercepting in their silent 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 sider
...glade. The rcof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wherever he rests he... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 sider
...ghde. Tbe roof, though moveafalc through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed: Pleased with his solitude', and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 494 sider
...The roof, though mov'able through all it's length i • As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...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 shakes From... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 sider
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'cly And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'ii: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 sider
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : *' The red.breast warbles still, but is content With...with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to (pray, where'er he rests, he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 sider
...tcr walks have made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines: — The red-breast warbles still, but is content With...suppress'd. Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light 1'rom spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle... | |
| 1815 - 558 sider
...made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines : — The red- breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes I'n mi many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. This picture... | |
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