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
| 1840 - 368 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 twinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 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,... | |
| 1842 - 858 pàgines
...content With slender notes, and more than half-suppressed ; Pleased with his solitude, and Hitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant draps. — Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give я useful... | |
| William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pàgines
...warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppreis'd : Fleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes 60 From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness,... | |
| 1843 - 488 pàgines
...solitude and flitting light From spray to spray, wiiere'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below....accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. " As to my own inclination," observes Evelyn, " I know of no tree amongst all the foresters becoming... | |
| 1844 - 276 pàgines
...red-breast 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,...accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. COWPER. Several of the wild quadrupeds now take to their Winter concealments, which they seldom or... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 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. Stillness, accompanied with sounds... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...warbles still, but is content With elender notes, and more than half suppressed : Pleased with his SDv pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pàgines
...redbreast 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 pendrnt drops of ice That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so... | |
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