A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all ; And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means... Country-side: A Wildlife Magazine - Página 3221907Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Hurdis - 1819 - 168 páginas
...No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another? Fondly then We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius foils.... | |
| Priscilla Wakefield - 1798 - 372 páginas
...bodkin to infcrt, " No " No glue to join, his little beak was all. «• And yet how neatly finiftied. What nice hand, « With every implement, and means of art, « And twenty years apprenticefhip to boot, " Could make me fuch another*." The neatnefs, (kill, and ingenuity cannot be... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1799 - 172 páginas
...wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With...And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another ? PROFESSOR HUEDIS IN THE VILLAGE CURATE. LEAVING the garden, and joining various other... | |
| William Bingley - 1803 - 606 páginas
...No glue to jo. n ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd. What nice hand With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, < .' Could make me such another ?. Fondly then We boast of excellence whose noblest skill Instinctive genius foils.... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet .how neatly finish'd. What nice hand Vr,ith ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another ! Fondly then We boast of excellence, whose noblest akill Instinctive genius foils.... | |
| James Hurdis - 1810 - 358 páginas
...No, glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another ? Fondly then We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius foils.... | |
| Elizabeth Frank - 1813 - 158 páginas
...glue to join ; — his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another ? HUKDIS. SOME little boys were playing in a field, near a hedge, on a fine autumn... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1816 - 316 páginas
...DO knife to cut; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert; No glue to join : bis little beak was all;— And yet how neatly finished! What nice hand, With...of art, And twenty years' apprenticeship to boot, Cnu'd make me such another? Fondly, then, We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius... | |
| 1817 - 494 páginas
...wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With...And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another? Fondly then We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius foils.... | |
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 páginas
...no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join : his little beak was all, Ami yet how neatly finished! What nice hand With every...And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another? Fondly then We boast of excellence, whose noblest skill Instinctive genius foils.... | |
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