 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the...  The North British Review - Seite 1351857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 Seiten
...Prose Works. Preface to Animadversions upon the Remonstrants' Defence against Smectyrunius, p. 55. pray do not imagine that those who make the noise...the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud aud troublesome, insects of the hour." It is to one of the great divines of the seventeenth century... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 Seiten
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath he shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the ield ; that, of course, they are many in number ; >r that, after all, they are other than the little,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1856 - 298 Seiten
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle repose in the shade, and are silent, pray do not suppose that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER ms SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 Seiten
...importunate chirp, while thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour." It is to one of the great divines of the seventeenth century that we owe the most famous description... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the end and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. i BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1844 - 146 Seiten
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shade, chew the cud and are silent, do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the fields ; that they are, of course, many in number, or that after all, they are other than the little,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 Seiten
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome insects of the hour." THE GORDON RIOTS. These disgraceful tumults are memorable beyond most others from the proof which they... | |
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 Seiten
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing under the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." It is right, however, in common fairness towards Horace, to remark, that while fighting in his juvenile... | |
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