 Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.  Land: Its Attractions and Riches - Page 94edited by - 1892 - 910 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : *' The 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 (pray, where'er he rests, he... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...tcr walks have made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines: — The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light 1'rom spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines : — The 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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...still, bnt is content With slender notes, and more than half snppress'd ; Pleas'd with hi., solitnde, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the peadent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sonnds... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...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... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...winter walks have made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines: — The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'cJ, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...the same bird whid11 dictated to Cowper the following lines : — • :. • • v' The red-ureast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppresa'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd : Pleas'd with bis solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er be rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...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... | |
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