 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 372 pagina’s
...should not man, the head of nature, sing His praises ? (Jas. v. 13 ; Еp. v. 19 ; 1 Cor. xv. 15.) " The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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... | |
 | 1877 - 602 pagina’s
...always attended with much risk. THE NIGHTINGALE. Do you recall what old, pious Izaak Walton said of him? "The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - 246 pagina’s
...laverock, the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1872 - 396 pagina’s
...of this country, and 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,... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - 1881 - 556 pagina’s
...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 - 378 pagina’s
...spring, and in their fixed months warble forth such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to ? .... But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...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 pagina’s
...greatly to the effect 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 pagina’s
...greatly to the effect 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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...laverock, the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...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... | |
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But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,... 
