 To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished !...  THE UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCHES - Page 405by R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Frank - Anecdotes - 1813 - 158 pages
...admiration, To view the structure of this little work, A Bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. Xo tool had he that wrought; no knife to cut; No nail...And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1816 - 316 pages
...of that httle work— A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without; No tool had he that wrought; DO knife to cut; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join : bis little beak was all;— And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement and... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...any one is in view. It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that little work, A birfs nest. Mark it well within, without. No tool had he that...apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another? Fondly then We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius foils. The strong-billed... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...there in the spring. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that little work — A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without ; No tool had he that...of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to boot, Cou'd make me such another? Fondly, then, We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...beak and two feet. It wins my admiration, To view the structure of lhat little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without. No tool had he that...insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, Ami yet how neatly finished! What nice hand With every implement and means of art, And twenty years... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...are the following lines in the Musae Seatoniana;, to this ingenious bird : " Behold a bird's nest, Mark it well within, without! No tool had he that...nice hand, With every implement and means of art, Could compass such another 1" INFALLIBLE THIEF CATCHER. An English gentleman, visiting a public garden... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...beak and two feet ! It wins my admiration, To view the structure of that little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without. No tool had he that...knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glui! to join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...sitting upon them. It wins my admiration To view the structure of that little work— A bird's nest. Mark it well within, without; No tool had he that wrought; no knife to cat; No-nail to fix; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join: his little beak was all;— And yet how... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Natural history - 1822 - 194 pages
..." But most of all it wins my admiration, To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest, Mark it well, within, without : No tool had he that...apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another I" Whet) the old birds were gone in quest of food, he examined the nest, and admired the skill and... | |
 | Animals - 1822 - 194 pages
...lines to the ingenuity of the Tailor-bird, and the hanging nest of the baya ; Behold a bird's nest ! Mark it well, within, without ! No tool had he that...bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was nil : And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, Could compass... | |
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