 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 דפים
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 דפים
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | William Chapman Hewitson - 1846 - 394 דפים
...a cherished inmate of our dwellings. " Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown,... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 דפים
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half.afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 דפים
...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 o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And picks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 דפים
...to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all his smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is — Till, more familiar... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1848 - 212 דפים
...Thomson's 'Seasons' about the robin :— 'Half afraid, he first ' Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; 'Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | William Ewart - 1849 - 94 דפים
...nest, and pays to man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats : then brisk alights On the warm hearth : then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 772 דפים
...pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 250 Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askanee, And peeks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown,... | |
 | 1906 - 682 דפים
...and natural view of such an incident :— Half afraid, he first Against the window beata ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance. The statement of GW that a superstition of ill-luck on the subject prevails... | |
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Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His 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... 
