...the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and fallmg, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth and say : " Lord,...

...by Henry Headley, * with a miirki.il preference, to the more famous strains of Milt' a and Thomson: "He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear aire, the sweet descants, the natural rising and billing, tho doubling and redoubling of her voiee,...

...little linnet, and the honest robin that loves mankind both' alive and dead. 8. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the...

...well as he loved fish," quoting •from him that graphic eulogy of the bird : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracle« are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should...

...in the familiar passage in Imk W<on, his simple expressions of delight in the singer ' breathing such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased.' The subject of the nightingale's superiority as a singer does not, however,...

...the Nightingale of Europe. .Of this last Izaak Walton thus quaintly speaks : " But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight,...

...song with teares doth steepe." The Shepherd's Calendar, Nor. — SPENSBB. '• But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles had not ceased."— WALTON'S...

...Philomele her song with tears doth steepe." SPENSER, The Shepherd's Calendar, Nov. " But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles had not ceased."—WALTON'S...

...sadness To see the conqueror upon the hearse To weep a funeral elegy of tears. — Ford. The nightingale breathes such sweet, loud music out of her little...might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. — I. Walton. It makes us to walk warily. — Jeremy Taylor. 610. An ellipsis of the infinitive after...

...loud music out of its little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often, the clear airs, the sweet descant, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...