 Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th...  Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Page 447edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven , Tam'd by the cruel season , croud around The winnowing store , and claim the little...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...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... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heav'n, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...assigns them. One aioue, The red-hreast, sacred to the houshold gods, Wisely regardful of th' emhroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves...annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window heats; then, hrisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor. Eyes all the smiling... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...charmingly described the annual visits of this little favourite, in lines that have beer often quoted. The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely...fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mate, and pays to trusted man Hit annual visit. Haif afraid, he first Against the window beaes ; then... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, 245 The red-breast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely...joyless fields and thorny thickets -leaves His shivering mate:-:, nnd pays to trusted Man His annual visit. H:iU'-.-.j'ruid. lie ih'it 250 Against the window... | |
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