| Harry Speight - 1894 - Liczba stron: 592
...all other songsters of the grove. " The bird," says good old Isaak Walton the father of anglers, " breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat that it might make mankind think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - Liczba stron: 638
...and dead. >/But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loudjnusic out^pf- 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, as I have... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1895 - Liczba stron: 314
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. 1 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 1 have... | |
| Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - Liczba stron: 462
...pipiquisi — Zozozozozozozozozozozozo zirrhading! • &c. &c. Quaint old Izaac Walton says : " 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,... | |
| James Walter - 1896 - Liczba stron: 444
...Walton preceded him, how deeply he would have drank in his glorious description that '' the nightingale 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,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1896 - Liczba stron: 386
...alive and dead. 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, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have... | |
| Emma J. Todd - 1896 - Liczba stron: 522
...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... | |
| Edward Payson Evans - 1897 - Liczba stron: 412
...Ornithological Society " Ornis," held at Leipsic in February, 1896. Isaak Walton says the nightingale " breathes such sweet, loud music out of her little...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased." But the miracle is still greater when such " sweet descants " come from... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - Liczba stron: 600
...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 laborer sleeps securely, should hear — as I have... | |
| John Milton - 1898 - Liczba stron: 334
...Comus, 234, 235 ; 566, 567. The following from Walton's Compleat Angler is worthy of a place here: " 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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