| 1823 - 428 Seiten
...her lute. Fla. Do and you will, do. Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Cor. Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant,... | |
| 1823 - 428 Seiten
...her lute. Fla. Do and you will, do. Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Cor. Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1830 - 368 Seiten
...Maynard, who was walking with her brother and a younger sister, " taking birds' nests is cruel." " Crue.1 or not, Miss Julia," replied Edward, " a bird's nest...friendless bodies of unburied men. Now I am quite sure that these lines are poetry ; and, at all events, every body holds the robin sacred for his social qualities,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1830 - 364 Seiten
...the household bird ! the friend of man !" cried Arthur ; " take a robin's nest! oh, fie, fie!" i " The robin redbreast," said little Sophy Maynard, "...friendless bodies of unburied men. Now I am quite sure that these lines are poetry ; and, at all events, every body holds the robin sacred for his social qualities,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1830 - 282 Seiten
...Wood were starved to death, covered them over with leaves. Did you never hear old nurse Andrewsrepeat the old ballad ? I can. almost say it myself:— "...friendless bodies of unburied men. Now I am quite sure that these lines are poetry; and, at all events, every body holds the robin sacred for his social qualities,... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 Seiten
...charity of their little favourite; and all of them, except Gay, note its solitary habits. Call for the redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Webster. While llcvil, Trajcjy.... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 Seiten
..." t the second in his Tragedy, called "The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona." 1612— " Call for d leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied mm;" t ' and the third in one of his... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1841 - 856 Seiten
...death, covered them over with leaves. Did you never hear old nurse Andrews repeat the old ballad Î I can almost say it myself:— " No burial this pretty...friendless bodies of unburied men. Now I am quite sure that these lines are poetry ; and, at all events, every body holds the robin sacred for his social qualities,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1841 - 688 Seiten
...Lamh's Specimens. Did you ever hear them ? Call to the rohin redhreast and the wren, Since o'er ghady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless hodice of unhuhed men. Now I am quite sure that these lines are poetry ; and, at all events, every... | |
| John Brand - 1842 - 306 Seiten
...none, To winter-ground thy corse.'' Again in Reed's Old Plays, vol. vi. p. 35S : " Call for the Rohin Redbreast and the Wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Thomson, in his Winter, thus mentions... | |
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