 Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of Nature is...  The Natural History of Selborne - Page 92by Gilbert White - 1842 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1789 - 396 pages
...season, lifts her bloomy head ?j "'• V^,i Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, =• *''7 The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leafjhelter'd let us stray,] -30 r Till blended objecls fail the swimming sight, And all {he fading... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...retreat When the frost rages arid the tempests beat ! Ipist. VIII. EPISTLES DESCRIPTIVE, £?Cl 15? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head t Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While'deep'ning... | |
 | 1793 - 204 pages
...hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Epist. VIII. EPISTLES DESCRIPTIVE, fSc. 67 Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When...deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray ; 'Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her hloomy head > Such haffled searches mocks man's prying pride. The God of Nature is your secret guide. While dcep'ning shades ohscure the face of daj, To yonder hench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray; Till hlended... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...unsubdued of wing Amusive birds', say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempest beat? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...pride: The God of nature is your secret guide. While deep' ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter' d, let us, stray, Till blended... | |
 | 1813 - 422 pages
...rages, and the tempest beat; " Whence your return, by such nice ÍBstinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches...pride, " The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide." Lord Montfort and Colonel Delap. — The intended duel between these two gentlemen, we noticed in our... | |
 | 1816 - 338 pages
...rages, and the tempests beat ; " Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches...prying pride, " The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide !" Most birds, at certain seasons, live together in pairs ; the •nion is formed in the spring, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...of wing. Amusive birds!— say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat? Whence your return by such nice instinct led, When...pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide. While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray ; Till blended... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...frost rages, and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches...prying pride ; The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide. other of the small billed birds that feed on insects disappear when the cold weather commences. The... | |
 | 1830 - 604 pages
...return, hy such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her hlooming head; Such haffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! '* Autumn may likewise he termed a season of superstition. I allude to the various meteoric phenomena... | |
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