| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - Liczba stron: 532
...lark When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. Merchant of Venice, 35. In matters of slight importance, attention is mostly directed by will; and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - Liczba stron: 376
...sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa... | |
| Thomas Pennant - 1818 - Liczba stron: 552
...than others it, that it sings in the night.f Hence Shakespeare says, "The nightingale, if she should sing by day, " When every goose is cackling, would...thought '• No better a musician than the wren." The song of this bird hath been described, and expatiated upon, by several writers, particularly Pliny... | |
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - Liczba stron: 464
..." it sings in the night;" and if we believe with Shakspeare, that " The Nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a Wren," what must we think of that bird, who in the glare of day, when a multitude of songsters are... | |
| Frances Moore - 1818 - Liczba stron: 630
...her Ladyship : " Mercy forbid ! you forget " ' The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.' " Then billiards ?" resumed Lord James, with rather more energy than usual. " Oh, worse and worse !"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - Liczba stron: 560
...sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection !— Peace, hoa !... | |
| Tales - 1820 - Liczba stron: 560
...Philosophy of Natural Historj. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every Goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one? NIGHTINGALE. I should be sorry to put my... | |
| 1821 - Liczba stron: 276
...Philosophy of Natural History. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing- by day, When every Goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one? NIGHTINGALE. I should be sorry to put my... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - Liczba stron: 984
...sing as sweetly as the When neither is attended ; and, I think, [lark, The nightingale, if she should The. Come now ; what masks, what dancrs would not be awak'd 1 [Music ceases. Lor. That is the voice, Or I am much deceiv'd, of Portia. Par.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - Liczba stron: 436
...sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection !— Peace, boa !... | |
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