 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 Quarterly Christian Spectator - Pagina 4281833Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1857 - 632 pagina’s
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle repose beneath the shadow of the British oak, shew the cud, and are silent — pray, do not imagine that...after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. I almost venture to affirm that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagina’s
...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...after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER ms SON.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pagina’s
...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...after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour." It is to one of the great divines... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pagina’s
...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...after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. i BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON.... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1844 - 146 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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...after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour." THE GORDON RIOTS. These disgraceful... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1860 - 654 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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...after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour." This passage, as you know, is taken... | |
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