| Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - Liczba stron: 360
...MACAULAY. THE BIRD'S NEST. 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, 5 No glue to join : his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! what nice hand, With every... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - Liczba stron: 728
...are more wonderful, are so wonderful. He who wrought it had no tool, no knife to cut, no nail to fix, no glue to join ; his little beak was all — and yet how neatly finished. Not long years of apprenticeship, with all aids of tools and appliances to boot, could, in... | |
| 1918 - Liczba stron: 544
...Birds. Nest on stick. Days With the Ruby.throated Hummer By SS Dickey, Pittsburgh, Pa. A bird's nest. Mark it well. Within, without. No tool had he that...join. His little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to... | |
| William Langland - 1886 - Liczba stron: 590
...— ' 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...join. His little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! ' etc. 161. ' If any mason were to make a mould for it with all her (the pie's) wise contrivances,... | |
| Sheldon and Company - 1886 - Liczba stron: 208
...Architecture. A bird's nest ! Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how nicely finished ! What nice hand With every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - Liczba stron: 712
...But most of all, it wins my admiration To view the structure of this li;tle work — A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without — No tool had he that...to join ; his little beak was all — And yet how nicely finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship... | |
| United States National Museum - 1887 - Liczba stron: 846
...words. The nest of this bird is truly a beautiful structure, recalling the lines"Mark it well wit-hiu, without! No tool had he that wrought, no knife to...join ; his little beak was all ; And yet how neatly finished!" It is generally placed iu the fork of a small branch, and sometimes " saddled" on a large... | |
| 1897 - Liczba stron: 260
...in by the I2th. Photo by Hermann Lea,] THE FOUNDLING." [Bardclf Manor, Dorchcster. A bird's nest ! Mark it well within, without ; No tool had he that...join ; his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship... | |
| William John Clarke Miller - 1899 - Liczba stron: 248
...during the bleak winds of early spring. " 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 ; his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means... | |
| 1901 - Liczba stron: 382
...bird." Truly, says the poet, — "Behold a bird's nest! No tool had he that wrought; no knife to cut; No glue to join; his little beak was all; And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, Could compass such another?" No creatures... | |
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