 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 Southern literary messenger - Page 2761849Full view - About this book
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - Ballads, French - 1860 - 650 pages
...fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing under the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed heneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and arc silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhahitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in numher; or that, after all, they are other... | |
 | William Fitzgerald (bp. of Killaloe.) - 1862 - 106 pages
...fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing under the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, — do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that, of course... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...under a fera niake the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...that of course they are many in number; or that after ail they are other that « ceux1 qui ont sur leur tête un bon toit et sur leur « dos un bon habit,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1864 - 554 pages
...capulets." Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath...they are many in number ; or that, after all, they arc other than the little, shriveled, meager, hopping, though loud and roublesome, insects of the hour.... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...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, it is not to be imagined that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that,... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...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, it is not to be imagined that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 446 pages
...de paille et de misérables chift fons de papi er sali à propos des droits de l'homme *. » reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...pray, do not imagine that those who make the noise are theonly inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that after ail they are... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1866 - 502 pages
..." Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chirp, while thousands of great cattle reposing beneath the...shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, * Milton's Prose Works. Preface to Animadversions upon the Remonstrants' Defence against Smectymnuns,... | |
 | James Locke Batchelder - 1866 - 64 pages
...beneath the fhadow of the Britifh Oak, chew the cud and keep filent; pray do not imagine that thofe who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of courfe, they are many in number; or, that after all, they are other than the little mrivelled, meagre,... | |
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