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 - 1821 - 556 pàgines
...still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, apd flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests...twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 278 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, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - 246 pàgines
...warbles still, but 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 shakes VoL. ii. P From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness,... | |
| James Sargant Storer - 1822 - 110 pàgines
...Task : No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. Stillness, accompanied with sounds like these, Charms more than silence. Meditation here, May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Returning through the Shrubbery,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pàgines
...redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppresa'd: Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray,...pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd Icares below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pàgines
...-Yom spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes •'rom many a twig the pendant drops of ice, "hat tinkle in the wither'd leaves below, stillness, accompanied...so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here Vlay think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, kud learning... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Ibid. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Half-way up He built his house,... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pàgines
...: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'eu he rests he shakes 80 From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle...here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom,... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 504 pàgines
...warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed ; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray,...twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silen -e. Meditation... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pàgines
...red-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 80 From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness,... | |
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