 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tara'dby the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heav'n, Tatn'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household Gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves N fti^^ tôiious ; it ^selections... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of Heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the* embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
 | 614 pages
...cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, . " Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...claim the little boon Which PROvIDENCE assigns them." 13th. Octave of the Epiphany. — Cambridge Term begins. 14th. St. Hilary, Bishop of Poictiers, iu... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the' embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets,...leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man (I is annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heav'n, Tam'd ; * every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should c 3/ shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Penates celebrated this day in old Rome : — Chill Winter still doth reign : the fowls of Heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,-...sacred to the Household Gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demande The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...One alone, The red-breast, sacred to the household goda, Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...winnowing store, and elaim the little boon Whieh Providenee assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, saered thiekets leaves His shiv'ring mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...Stands cover'd o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of tli' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to... | |
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Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of th... 
