| David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 páginas
...(another of my Airy Creatures) breaths such sweet loud musick out of her little instrumental throat,that it might make mankind to think Miracles are not ceased....sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the redoubling and redoubling of her voice,1 might well be lifted above earth, and say : Lord, what Musick... | |
| John Harrington Keene - 1881 - 544 páginas
...is "the contemplative man's pastime" — could have written this passage anent the nightingale : ' ' He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps...hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descents, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted... | |
| John Harrington Keene - 1881 - 556 páginas
...is "the contemplative man's pastime" — could have written this passage anent the nightingale: "Ho that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely,...hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descents, the natural rising and falling , the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 380 páginas
...fixed mouths warble forth such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to? .... But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...music out of her little instrumental throat, that it makes mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps... | |
| John George Wood - 1882 - 76 páginas
...of the scene. Well may Isaak Walton say in his delightfully quaint language : " 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,... | |
| John George Wood - 1882 - 264 páginas
...of the scene. Well may Isaak Walton say in his delightfully quaint language : " 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,... | |
| Temperate regions - 1882 - 268 páginas
...heart. " The nightingale," he says, " breathes such sweet music pio) 12 178 THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG. out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps so securely, should... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 páginas
...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...throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have... | |
| James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 páginas
...warble forth such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to;" and, lastly, of the nightingale, who " breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental...might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased." Then Venator follows in a neat little speech in praise of the chase ; of the perfection of smell possessed... | |
| 1883 - 568 páginas
...reference need be made to Walton's prose-poem on this bird : ' Another of my airy creatures breathing such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental...might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.' It will be remembered, too, that ' honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin,' the milkmaid, ' cast away all... | |
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