| Mary Somerville - Biogeography - 1869 - 618 pages
...earthly turmoil. The contest between spring and winter is long 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... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 324 pages
...srithdrew. Soon after, the travellers retired to rest. CHAPTER XXL As yet the trembling year is uneonfirm'd, And winter oft, at eve, resumes the breeze, Chills...pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightful : THOHSOH. and the loading of baggage. A few minutes later thu attte caravan was assembled,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...torrents lost, 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...pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightlcss ; so that scarce The bittern know* his time with bill ingulpht P To >hftkr the minding... | |
| James Thomson - 1854 - 404 pages
...heads to the sky. As yet the jrembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, A Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless : so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill eugulf'd To shake the sounding marsh ; or from... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...their green heads to the sky. Thomson's Seasons. ЙОО SOt As yet the trembling year is uneonfirm'd, And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless. Thomson's Seasone. No more The expansive atmosphere is eramp'd with eold ; But, full of life and vivifying... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...NATURALIST. SPUING. WINTER is passing away, though still " the trembling year is unconfirmed :" — " And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the...bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless." Yet winter is passing away ! — and spring-time (the time par excellence of poetry) is advancing,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 556 pages
...Soon after, the travellers retired to rest. CHAPTER XXI. As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, And winter oft, at eve, resumes the breeze, Chills...pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightful: THOMSON. THE horn of Pierre Dumont was blowing beeath the windows of the inn of Martigny,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 516 pages
...Soon after, the travellers retired to rest. CHAPTER XXI. "Ja yet the trembling year is unconfirmed. And winter oft, at eve, resumes the breeze, Chills...pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightful : " THOMSON. THE horn of Pierre Dumont was blowing beneath the windows of the inn of Martigny,... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, he muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. delightlcss ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed, To shake the sounding... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...lift their green heads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at evo s his bat, and mumbling swears A Bible-oath to be whate'or delightlcss ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed, To shako the sounding... | |
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