 | Methodist Church - 1824 - 496 pages
...alter'd is bis taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass to IV.isf. Behold the rooks, bow odd their night, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt (he piercing ball. The tender colts on back do lie, Nor heed the traveller passing by. \S\jiery red... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...dog, so alter'd is his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grast to feast. Behold the rooks, how odd '.heir flight They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. The tender colts on back do lie, Nor heed the traveller passing by. In ßery red the sun doth rite,... | |
 | Geology - 1863 - 376 pages
...hills are looking nigh ; Hark, how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; 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 ; How restless are the snorting swine,... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pages
...voice is shrill. The dog, so alter'd 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 fiery red the sun doth rise,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...dog, so alter'd is his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast. Behold the rooks, how odd '.heir flight They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball . The tender colts on back do lit, Nor heed the traveller passing by. In fiery red the mn doth rite,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...his yellow nest, And in a russet coat is drest ; My dog, so altered in his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks, how odd their...they felt the piercing ball. — 'Twill surely rain, 1 see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. Da JENNER. PERSEVERANCE WILLIAM DAVY. WILLIAM... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...still, The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill. My dog, so altered is his taste, Quits tnutton-bones, on grass to feast ; And see, yon rooks, how odd their...piercing ball. — 'Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow j Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow." ORIGIN OF THE ART OF PRINTING. PRINTING by moveable types is... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...hills are looking nigh ; Hark, how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty*sjoints are on the rack; . And see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite 1832.] 124 THE PENNY MAGAZINE. Or seem precipitate to fall As if they felt the piercing ball ; How... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...voice is shtill. The dog, so alter'd 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 fiery red the sun doth rise,... | |
 | 1836 - 98 pages
...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,... | |
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The whirling wind the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays. The frog has changed his yellow vest, And in a russet coat is drest. 
