 Drawn from his refuge in some lonely elm, That age or injury has hollow'd deep, Where, on his bed of wool and matted leaves, He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1331841Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1853 - 800 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play ; 316 Ho sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prcttiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. 390 The heart is hard in nature, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play ; 315 Ho sees mo, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the noighb'ring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all tho prottiness of feign '»l alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. 390 The heart is hard in nature,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, — flippant, pert and full of play : He sees me, and,...of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and...whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and scolds aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm, si a And anger insignificantly fierce. The... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. 315 He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends...whisks his brush And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. 320 The heart... | |
 | William Cowper - Poetry - 1854 - 460 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and...Ascends the neighbouring beech ; there whisks his brush, With all the prettineas of feign'd alarm, sio And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play; He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird [brush, Ascends the neighbouring beech ; there whisks hi* And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...forth, To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, port, and full of play ; 315 He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech ; there whisks his brunh, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and...stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm. And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and...stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign' d alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human... | |
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