Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet... English and Latin Poems: Original and Translated - Page 198de John Latham - 1853 - 249 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1824 - 496 pages
...The busy flies disturb the kint. Low o'er the grass the tu- allow wings, The cricket too, how sharps he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whisker 'd jaws. The smoke from chimneys right ascends ; Then spreading, back to earth it bends. The... | |
| 1824 - 920 pages
...busy '., disturb the kiue. Low o'er the grass the wallow wings, The cricket too, how sharp he sings 1 Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jatrs. The smoke from chimneys rigid ascends ; Then spreading, back to tarth it tends. The wind unsteady... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...joints are on the rack ; Loud <juack the ducks, thepeacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine, The busy flies...grass the swallow wings The cricket, too, how sharp be sings ; Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er whisker'd jaws. Throngh the clear... | |
| 1863 - 376 pages
...flight, They imitate the gliding kite, Or seem precipitate to fall As if they felt the piercing ball ; How restless are the snorting swine, The busy flies...grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how sharp she sings, Puss on the hearth with velvet paws Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws ; The wind, unsteady,... | |
| 1826 - 738 pages
...the kine ; 50. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; 51. The cricket too, how sharp he sings ; 22. Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. 43. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch th* incautious flies ; 24. The glow-worms,... | |
| Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pages
...bed untimely send her. Loud quack the ducks, the sea fowls cry. The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies...velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. The smoke from chimneys right ascends ; Then spreading, back to earth it bends. The wind unsteady veers... | |
| 1827 - 932 pages
...disturb the kine; 20. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; 21. The cricket too, how sharp he sings: 22. Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. 23. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch th' incautious flies ; 24. The glow-worms,... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...joints are on the rack ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies...the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies ; The... | |
| 1831 - 584 pages
...cry,. The distant hills are looking nigh ; How restless are the snorting swine ; . • -i— -yii. The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket too, how loud it sings ! Puss, on the hearth, with velvet pawff, Sits smoothing o'er her whisker'd jaws ; .... | |
| James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ? The busy flies...on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er ber whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies;... | |
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