 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 paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered...  Notes and Queries - Pàgina 4421904Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1824 - 496 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 376 pàgines
...busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the 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, veers around, Or settling in the south is found ; The whirling wind the dust obeys... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pàgines
...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...velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies ; The frog has changed... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pàgines
...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...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;... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pàgines
...The busy flies disturb the kine; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket too, how sharp be sings. Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch th' incautious flies. The glow-worms, numerous... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pàgines
...lookin' .igh. How restless are the sn<~ ug swine ! The busy flies disturb .e kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how sharp he...the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies ; 2E... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 pàgines
...looking nigh. How restless are the snarling swine ! The busy fiies disturb the kme. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings The cricket too, how sharp he sings...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 wind... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1836 - 188 pàgines
...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...velvet paws, Sits, wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the thoughtless flies ; F 3 The frog has... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pàgines
...busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket too, how sharp she 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... | |
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