 | 1836 - 98 pàgines
...voice is shrill. The dog, so altered is his taste, Quits mutton bones, on grass to feast. Behold the rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding...precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. The tender colts on back do lie, Nor heed the traveller passing by. In liery red the sun doth rise,... | |
 | John Stevenson Bushnan - 1837 - 350 pàgines
...And in the rapid eddy plays. My dog, sb altered in his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight They imitate the gliding kite ; Or seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain." AH the acts... | |
 | John Stevenson Bushnan - 1837 - 372 pàgines
...in the rapid eddy plays. IV]y dog, so altered in his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight They imitate the gliding kite ; Or seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain." All the acts... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pàgines
...voice is shrill. The dog, so altered is his taste, Quits mutton bones, on gross to feast. Behold the rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding...precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. The tender colts on back do lie, Nor heed the traveller passing by. In fiery red the sun'doth rise,... | |
 | M. H. Cowell - 1839 - 140 pàgines
...they close up, and thus indjcate the approach of rain. "Closed is the pink-eyed PIMPERNEI.L. ******** 'Twill surely rain, I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow." DB. JENMER. This is also one of Linnaeus' ' Flora Horologicce.' Its flowers open about eight minutes... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pàgines
...It is frequently called the shepherd's weatherglass. ASSIGNATION. Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel, 'Twill surely rain, I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. JENNER. "I'll go and peep at the Pimpernel, And see if she think the clouds look well ; For if the... | |
 | George William Francis - 1839 - 236 pàgines
...the Pimpernel expanded I have been sure of warmth and sunshine. " Closed is the pink-ey'd Pimpernel, 'Twill surely rain, I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow." — Dr. JENNER. " Of humble growth, though brighter dyes But not by rural swains less prized, The trailing... | |
 | Matthew Henry Cowell - 1839 - 136 pàgines
...is moist they elose up, and thus indieate the approaeh of rain. " Closed isthapink eyed PIMPERNELT,. -Twill surely rain, I see. with sorrow Our jaunt must be put olí to'morrow. " Da. JF.NNER. This is also one of Linnieus' ' Flora IIoroloyieai.' Its iiowers open... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1842 - 462 pàgines
...up again. It is frequently called the shepherd's weather-glass. Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel; "Twill surely rain ; I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. DR. JENNER. ASYLUM, PROTECTION. JUNIPER.9 — JUN1PERUS COMMUN1S. NAT. CLASS, DICOTYLEDONES ; OtiDER,... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 pàgines
...tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." MILTON. CLOSED is the pink-ey'd pimpernel. # # * # * 'T will surely rain, I see, with sorrow ; Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow." DR. JENNEB. THE SENSITIVE PLANT. MODESTY becomes the brave as well as the fair. Young says, Of boasting... | |
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Quits mutton-bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. 
