 | 1829 - 812 σελίδες
...that, " Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise, So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies : The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales." Birds of passage show the tenour of the weather, according to the regions they come from : as woodcocks,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1806 - 786 σελίδες
...Ad&ft*' —My nag's greatcft fcmlt was fnuffirtg up the и about Brackdenftown. Siuiß. t. To frent.— The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heav'n, ina/nufi it in the wind. For thee the bulls rebellow through tbe groves, And tempt the ftream, and... | |
 | Charles Swainson - 1873 - 322 σελίδες
...weather seldom hurts the most unwise ; So plain the signs, Such prophets are the skies. Crane. Cow. The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heaven, and snuffs it in the wind : Swallow. The swallow skims the river's watery face : Frogs. The... | |
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Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales... 
