 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...  The Task - Pàgina 154per William Cowper - 1817 - 188 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pàgines
...redhreast warhles still, hut is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray,...pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves helow. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think... | |
 | James Storer - 1809 - 346 pàgines
...against the laboured neatness of the turf floor, contrasted with the ivy-mantled windows and walls. Still Meditation here May think down hours to moments : here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without her books. How many hearts have here... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pàgines
...warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas 'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray,...shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, si That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pàgines
...warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'ii: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray,...think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far... | |
 | 1801 - 454 pàgines
...Witt slender notes, and more than half suppres't: Pleas'd with his solitude ; and flitting light f From spray to spray, where'er he rests he, shakes...of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. p »«•«*****».. » ^ -Rills that slip , Upon loose pebbles, lose themselvs at length In matted... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pàgines
...notes and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to (pray, where'er he rests, he shakes From many a twig the...of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below." COWPER. " Nae mair the grove with airy concert rings, Except perhaps the robin's whistling glee, Proud... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pàgines
...With slender notes and more than half 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 in the wither'd leaves below. This picture is equally natural with... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pàgines
...breast warbles still, but is content 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 I'n mi many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. This picture... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pàgines
...Maijxaxluf ituvoj r. Mcopax7ij THE RUMINATOR. CONTAINING A SERIES OF MORAL AND SENTIMENTAL ESSAYS. " Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head." COWPEH. N° I. On the Consequences of War ; with a Poem in commendation... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 330 pàgines
...Ma(/*ax7ij THE RUMINATOR. CONTAINING A SERIES OF MORAL AND SENTIMENTAL ESSAYS. . ..................... " Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head." . COWPER. On the Consequences of War ; with a Poem in com" mendation... | |
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