 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 pages
...sequester'd bird, Soft as the passing wind, And I recorded what I heard, A lesson for mankind. A FABLE. A RAVEN, while with glossy breast Her new laid eggs she fondly press 'd, And, on her wickerwork high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted, (A fault philosophers... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - Animals - 1832 - 388 pages
...employed, are a blessing ; when abused, a curse. FABLE LXVII. (ZCountrgman anto tfie -daben. [From COWTER.] A RAVEN, while with glossy breast, Her new laid eggs she fondly press'd, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted. (A fault, philosophers... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeigned, and humiliation meek ? THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE RAVEN. A RAVEN, while with glossy breast, Her new laid eggs she fondly press'd, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted ; (A fault, philosophers... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeigned, and humiliation meek : THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE RAVEN. A RAVEN, while with glossy breast, Her new laid eggs she fondly press'd, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted ; (A fault, philosophers... | |
 | Favourite fables - 1870 - 292 pages
...blusterer vainly spends, While steadiness in quiet gains its ends. FABLE XC. THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE RAVEN. A RAVEN, while with glossy breast, Her new laid eggs she fondly pressed, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted. (A fault philosophers... | |
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THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE RAVEN. A RAVEN, while with glossy breast, Her new laid eggs she fondly press'd, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted ; (A fault, philosophers might blame, If quite exempted from the same,) Enjoy'd... 