| Simeon Pease Cheney - 1892 - 292 páginas
...pp. 705-707.) "Bat the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, load magic oat of her little instrumental throat that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
| Harry Speight - 1894 - 588 páginas
...anglers, " breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat that it might make mankind think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight,...natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling o: her voice, might well be lifted above earth and say, ' Lord, what music hast Thou provided for the... | |
| Harry Speight - 1894 - 592 páginas
...all other songsters of the grove. " The bird," says good old Isaak Walton the father of anglers, " breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat that it might make mankind think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 páginas
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. ' But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as 1 have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling... | |
| Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 páginas
...Zozozozozozozozozozozozo zirrhading! • &c. &c. Quaint old Izaac Walton says : " 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,... | |
| James Walter - 1896 - 444 páginas
...Walton preceded him, how deeply he would have drank in his glorious description that '' the nightingale breathes such sweet loud music 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 securely, should hear,... | |
| Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 páginas
...Its colors are dark brown above and grayish white below. Izaak Walton says-: " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of the little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that... | |
| Edward Payson Evans - 1897 - 412 páginas
...Ornithological Society " Ornis," held at Leipsic in February, 1896. Isaak Walton says the nightingale " breathes such sweet, loud music out of her little...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased." But the miracle is still greater when such " sweet descants " come from... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 522 páginas
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind, both alive and dead. 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1898 - 334 páginas
...567. The following from Walton's Compleat Angler is worthy of a place here: " 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... | |
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