...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...

...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...

...abound in this homely place; and here, two hundred years ago, he may have penned the following lines : " The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have...

...Leverock, the Titlark, the little Linnet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have...

...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,...

...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...

...alone echoes for its own sadness, is here presented to us with more cheerful associations : — " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental See that sweet, sad " sonnetto ;" — " Quel rossigmuol, che si solve piange Forse suoi figli, O sna...

...wallis rung. 4 But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud musick, out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that, at midnight, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet...

...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, breathes...throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have...

...clearvoiced nightingale. Nor do we accuse izaak Walton of exaggeration in his beautiful description: "But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, shall hear, as i have very...