| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets 20 Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce * This distinguished lady was Frances Thynne, eldest... | |
| Home and colonial school society - 1848 - 412 pages
...sdft, pleasant weather in March is seldom of long duration. " As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless." Cheerful sights and sounds, however, daily increase and succeed to the sombre skies and chilling silence... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...lost, 35 The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed, To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...torrents lost, Tho mountains lift their green heads to the sky As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets 80 Deform the day delightless: so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfd, To shake... | |
| Mary Somerville - Biogeography - 1849 - 450 pages
...earthly turi 2 moil. The contest between spring and winter is loug and severe, for * ( Winter oft at once resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day, delightless." Yet when gentler gales succeed, and the waters run off in torrents through the channels which they... | |
| A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...torrents lost, The mountains lifts their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless: so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed, To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill engulf'd To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
| Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...the year is young : — As yet the trembling year is nnconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes tlie breeze ; Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless. But the day is even now at our doors, when Spring, with all its enchanting beauties, will burst upon... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...soft pleasant weather in March is seldom of long duration. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless. The importance of a dry season for getting the seed early and favorably into the ground, is expressed... | |
| Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill engulph'd To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
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