 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 - 1825 - 252 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...as a bird, Ascends the neighbouring beech : there wisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 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 the neighb'ring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 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 the neighb'ring beeeb ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...the winter, ventures forth » To frisk a while, and bask in the warm sun,- V " •'_ The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play ; He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, [brush, Ascends the neighb'ring beech ; there whisk his And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk a while, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play ; He sees me, and...; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamp?, and cries aloud, Wilh all the prettiness of feigned alarm, And anger, insignificantly fierce.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 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 bmL^ Ascends the neighbouring beech ; theredfekshis brush, . •* And perks his earn, and stamps, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 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 the neighb'ring beech; there whisks his brush, And perks his cars, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - History - 1833 - 360 pages
...flippant, pert, and full of play, • He sees us, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighb'ring beech, there whisks his brush, And perks his ears,...feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce." A wild whoop in the woods, and the report of a musket, told us that we were near the Credit Creek,... | |
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