 | S. Waring - Birds - 1832 - 286 pages
...to the shores they have quitted. Well may we exclaim, with the delightful naturalist of Selborne, " Whence your return by such nice instinct led, When...pride — The God of nature is your secret guide." We cannot willingly close this little sketch without quoting the appropriate and elegantly written... | |
 | S. Waring - Birds - 1832 - 280 pages
...to the shores they have quitted. Well may we exclaim, with the delightful naturalist of Selborne, " Whence your return by such nice instinct led, When...bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pfide — The God of nature is your secret guide." We cannot willingly close this little sketch without... | |
 | S. Waring - Birds - 1832 - 284 pages
...exclaim, with the delightful naturalist of Selborne, " Whence your return by such nice instinct led, AVhen spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such...pride — The God of nature is your secret guide." We cannot willingly close this little sketch without quoting the appropriate and elegantly written... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing: Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When...prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf- sheltered, let us stray, Till... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...infant train ; To mark the swift, in rapid giddy ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the...prying 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... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...in rapid giddy ring, Dart round the steeple, unsubdued of wing: Amusive birds ! say, where your Lid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat?...pride, — The God of Nature is your secret guide ! While dcep'ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, Icaf-shclter'd, let us stray, Till... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pages
...her infant train; To mark the Swift in rapid giddy ring, Dart round the steeple, unsuhdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When...Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baflled searches mock man's prying pride,— The God of Nature is your secret guide ! While deep'ning... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the...prying 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds! say where your hid retreat When the...prying 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... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1842 - 440 pages
...infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid, giddy ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When...prying pride, The God of nature is your secret guide ! " While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-sheltered, let us stray,... | |
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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... 
