| Edmund Burke - History - 1759 - 516 pages
...heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing that flits along the fky. To him they fi.ng, when Spring renews the plain, To him they cry in Winter's pinching reign ; Nor is their muiic, nor their plaint in vain : He hears the pay, and the diftrefsful call, A.id with unfparing bounty... | |
| James Thomson - English literature - 1763 - 458 pages
...pleafing fang; Yet your kind Heavenly Father bends his eye On theleaft wing, that flits along the Iky. To him they fing, when fpring renews the plain, -\ To him they cry, in winter's pinching reign; t Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain : _) He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And... | |
| History - 1764 - 524 pages
...pltafmg fong ; Yet, your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the lead wing that flits along the flcy. To him they fing, when fpring renews the plain, To...nor their plaint in vain: He hears the gay, and the didrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty fills them all. Obferve the rifing lilly's fnowy grace,... | |
| James Thomson - 1760 - 326 pages
...bends his eye On the leaft wing, that flits along the fky. To him they fmg, when Spring" renews tke plain, To him they cry, in Winter's pinching reign...diftrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty fills them all. le plain, T reign ; 1 ain : J Obferve the fifing lilly's fnowy grace, Obferve the various vegetable... | |
| James Thomson - 1774 - 282 pages
...heav'nly father bends his eye On the leaft wing, that flits along the iky. To him they fing, when Spring renews the plain, •) To him they cry, in Winter's...; ^ > Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diltrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty nils them all. Obferve the,... | |
| William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...thepleafing fong; Yet, your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing that flits along the fky. To him they fing, when fpring renews the plain ; -\...; £ Nor is their mufic,' nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty fills them all. i Obferve... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1787 - 510 pages
...Winter's pinching reign, S is their mufic nor thejr pJaint in vaio: J POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 2g|T He hears the gay and the diftrefsful call, .And with unfparing bounty fills them all. Obferve the riling lily's fnowy grace, Obferve the various vegetable race ; They neither toil nor fpin, but carelefs... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...plain, } To him they cry, in Winter's pinching reign ; f Nor is their mufic nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty fills them all. Obferve the rifmg lily's fnowy grace, Obferve the various vegetable race ; They neither toil, nor fpin, but carelefs... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...Father bends his eye On the leaft wing that flits along the iky. To him they fing when fpring re news ye debtors ! when ye walk beware, J3c circumfpcft...oft with infidious ken This caitiff eyes your ftep bean the gay and the diftrefsful call, Afld, with unfparing bounty, fills them all. Obferve the riling... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...pleafmg fnajj Yet, your kind heav'nly Father bends hb eye On the leaft wing that flits along the iky. To him they fing when fpring renews the plain ; ^ To him they cry in winter's pinching rcu'.n; > Nor is their muik nor their plaint in vaiti : J He hears the t;.vv and the d&xt£t&9\ o\\,... | |
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