| Carson Samuel Duncan - 1918 - Liczba stron: 204
...struggling with ornateness for free expression. "But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not yet ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1914 - Liczba stron: 362
...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... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1916 - Liczba stron: 344
...loves mankind both alive and dead. ' But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes guch 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, as I have... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - Liczba stron: 272
...Tit-lark, and 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... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1920 - Liczba stron: 342
...in the familiar passage in Izaak Walton, his simple expressions of delight in the singer "breathing such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased." The subject of the nightingale's superiority as a singer does not, however,... | |
| Henry Adelbert White - 1922 - Liczba stron: 360
...the wind is favorable, they gallop over miles of country faster than a horse. — STEVENSON. 5. 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... | |
| 1921 - Liczba stron: 286
...own literature, Bede follows Caedmon. Here, in our goodly Izaak Walton, is sheer and pure prose : " He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear air, the sweet descant, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might... | |
| Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - 1924 - Liczba stron: 148
...harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons. 88. 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... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1925 - Liczba stron: 502
...honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the Nightingale, another of my airy cieaturcs, 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 laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1925 - Liczba stron: 502
...Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. . But the Nightingale, another of my airy cicaturcs, 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 laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have... | |
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