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,... The biblical museum - Página 84por James Comper Gray - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1866 - 346 páginas
...in the street to-morrow I should know him again. This is the man who wrote the following: — " 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... | |
| 1867 - 972 páginas
...his music." " The Nightingale," written in April, 1798 : " Poetical World" p. 454. " The nightingale breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might niake mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps... | |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1868 - 388 páginas
...the street to-morrow I should know him again. This is the man who wrote«the following : — " 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... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 páginas
...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, breathes...throat, that 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... | |
| 1890 - 660 páginas
...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,... | |
| Piscatorial Society - 1890 - 154 páginas
...dreamer saw the devout angler stand enraptured as the nightingale burst into song, "breathing sucli sweet, loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased." The next instant the beams of the rising sun seemed to appear upon the horizon, gradually... | |
| Hiram Erastus Butler - 1890 - 542 páginas
...tornado, or suspend not the opera* ' ' Bat the nightingale, another of my air; creatures, breathes snch 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 laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
| Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 páginas
...three-quarters of an ounce. Its colors are dark brown above and grayish white below. Izaak Walton says : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of the little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that... | |
| John Wilson - 1891 - 354 páginas
...only its meagre skeleton remains. Isaac Walton, in his quaint eloquence, tries to say what he felt: "The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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... | |
| Isaac Bassett Choate - 1891 - 356 páginas
...looked upon Nature and listened to her voices. There is room here but for a single paragraph. " 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, should hear, as I have... | |
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