 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
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 silence. Meditation... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pàgines
...many a twig the peudeut drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompauied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours-to moments. Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, 11* And learning wiser grow... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pàgines
...where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation her* May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pàgines
...suppress'd. Pleased 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...here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart 85 May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 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, Thai tinkle in the wither'd leaves helow. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pàgines
...redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleased 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 accompanied... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pàgines
...redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleased 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 accompanied... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 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 From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Sir James Mackintosh has observed,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pàgines
...redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray,...That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, aceompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pàgines
...warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleased 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 withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds... | |
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