| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 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,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 páginas
...laverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, who loves mankind both alive and dead. miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear air, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice,... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 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...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,... | |
| William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 566 páginas
...express his admiration of the bird in the following quaint terms : — " But the Nightingale," says he, " another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...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,... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 páginas
...it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear — as I have very often...clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and fulling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord,... | |
| John George Wood - 1855 - 478 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,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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, the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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, the... | |
| British land birds - 1857 - 318 páginas
...go to Morocco; a Russian nightingale to Egypt. That ardent lover of nature Isaac Walton has said, " He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often done, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...titlark, the 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 failing, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, ' Lord,... | |
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