 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1903 - 488 pages
...bird, Ascends the neighboring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud, With all the prettiness of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. (COWPER: The Task, book VI. ll. 295-320. 1785.) " The blank verse of Cowper's Task is admirably adapted to the... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1904 - 588 pages
...squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, " At once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighboring beech; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears,...of feigned alarm And anger insignificantly fierce." And then he passes into reflection, not with curt apothegm and snappish reproof, but with that melodious... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1904 - 602 pages
...squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, " At once, swift as a hird, Ascends the neighboring beech; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiuess of feigned alarm And anger insignificantly fierce." And then he passes into reflection,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 916 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 feigned alarm And anger insignificantly fierce. 320 The heart... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 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, Ascends the neighb'ring beach ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | Paul Griswold Huston - 1906 - 378 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, Ascends the neighb'ring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | Paul Griswold Huston - Colerain (Hamilton County, Ohio : Township) - 1906 - 376 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, Ascends the neighb'ring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - English literature - 1907 - 588 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, And anger insignificantly fierce. Passing through... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 336 pages
...In unrecumbeni sadness" ; in the little squirrel, that, surprised by him in his woodland walk, — "At once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighbouring...of feigned alarm And anger insignificantly fierce." And then he passes into reflection, not with curt apothegm and snappish reproof, but with that melodious... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Calendars - 1908 - 460 pages
...He has out-slept 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 feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce. COWPER J-... | |
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