 | 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
...to ! Nay, the smaller birds also do the like in their particular seasons, as, namely, the laverock, the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin,...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pagina’s
...loving familiarity of the blackbird, song thrush, skylark, linnet, and the "honest robin," he says: " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often, the clear ait's, the sweet descants, the natural... | |
 | Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club - 1884 - 426 pagina’s
...also do the like in their particular seasons, as namely the laverock, the Tit-lark, the little Linet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive...(another of my airy creatures) breathes such sweet lowd musick out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think Miracles are... | |
 | Mary Howitt - 1885 - 122 pagina’s
...with good old Izaak Walton : — " 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 had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the weary labourer sleeps securely, should... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1886 - 244 pagina’s
...old Izaak Walton gives us this : "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 had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the weary laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 pagina’s
...lamentations." Or this, of the nightingale, worthy to compete with Crashawe's, or with Jeremy Taylor's lark : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...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... | |
 | 1890 - 660 pagina’s
...ravishing, like the music of heaven. Well did quaint old Izaak Walton realise this when he said of the bird, "The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...instrumental throat that it might make mankind to think that the age of miracles had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely,... | |
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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. 
