 I view the embattled tower Whence all the music. I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof...  Poems - Strona 151autor: William Cowper - 1806Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Stoddart - 1801 - Liczba stron: 402
...I was more than once reminded most fccibly of that beautifully descriptive passage, in the "ask : " The redbreast warbles still ; but is content With slender notes and more than half supprest Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests, he shaks... | |
 | 1802 - Liczba stron: 302
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all iis length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, ' ' intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 73 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - Liczba stron: 350
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - Liczba stron: 234
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The rcof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wherever he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - Liczba stron: 338
.....4-.„* The roof, though movahle through all it's lengthAs the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redhreast warhles still, hut is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - Liczba stron: 212
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its lengtk As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - Liczba stron: 416
...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 - 1811 - Liczba stron: 510
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - Liczba stron: 228
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'cly And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise... | |
 | 1815 - Liczba stron: 558
...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... | |
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