| Robert Demaus - 1859 - Liczba stron: 612
...kverock, 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... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1859 - Liczba stron: 556
...by Henry Headley, * with a miirki.il preference, to the more famous strains of Milt' a and Thomson: "He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear aire, the sweet descants, the natural rising and billing, tho doubling and redoubling of her voiee,... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - Liczba stron: 580
...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... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - Liczba stron: 136
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin that loves mankind both' alive and dead. 8. 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... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1860 - Liczba stron: 672
...birds almost as well as he loved fish," quoting •from him that graphic eulogy of the bird : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracle« are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should... | |
| Cornwall Simeon - 1860 - Liczba stron: 324
...almost as well as he loved fish," — quoting from him that graphic eulogy of the bird : — " But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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, Charles Cotton - 1860 - Liczba stron: 402
...little Linnet, and the honest Robin that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the Nightingale,31 another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - Liczba stron: 766
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale,3 another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...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,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - Liczba stron: 914
...in the familiar passage in Imk W<on, 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,... | |
| Worthington Hooker - 1860 - Liczba stron: 384
...this country, and the Nightingale of Europe. .Of this last Izaak Walton thus quaintly speaks : " 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,... | |
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