| George Horne - 1833 - 438 páginas
...blessings, they pay not their tribute of thanksgiving, and sing not unto the Lord the songs of Sion ! " He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often done, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 438 páginas
...blessings, they pay not their tribute of thanksgiving, and sing not unto the Lord the songs of Sion ! " He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often done, the clear airs, the sweet descants, 1 Wesley's Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation,... | |
| 536 páginas
...to dull earth', which she would not touch but for necessity. But the nightingale, onother of these airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music, out...when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear the clear airs, the sweet descents, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of... | |
| 1839 - 786 páginas
...eulogy is more flattering: — ' The Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such s«<»j music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracle* arc not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
| William Macgillivray - 1839 - 578 páginas
...eulogy is more flattering : — " The Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet 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,... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 páginas
...twenty or thirty years, and riches will come as sure as disease, disappointment, and miserable death. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 páginas
...and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and meat, and content. — IZAAK WALTON. HE that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often done, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 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...have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants B 3 the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted... | |
| 1842 - 740 páginas
...pensioner. To the same family also belongs the nightingale, which, to use the words of Isaac Walton, ' 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,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 páginas
...pensioner. To the same family also belongs the nightingale, which, 'to use the words of Isaac Walton, ' breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. lie that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should... | |
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