 ... perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight.  Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery - Sida 140efter Mary Russell Mitford - 1824Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 sidor
...lines of diff'ring method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordain'd to be Musick' s first martyr) strove to imitate These several sounds : which when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief down dropt she on his lute And brake her heart. It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | John Ford - 1811 - 522 sidor
...discord, lines of diff'ring method Meeting in one full centre of delight. Amet. Now for the bird. Men. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...These several sounds : which, when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief, down dropp'd she on- Ms lute, And brake her heart. It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1813 - 508 sidor
...lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordain'd to be Musick' s first martyr) strove to imitate These several sounds : which when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief down dropt she on his lute And brake her heart. It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 sidor
...discord, lines of diff'riug method Meeting in one full centre of delight. Amet. Now for the bird. Men. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...These several sounds: which, when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief, down dropp'd she on his lute, And brake her heart. It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1820 - 594 sidor
...sung her oun ie strain ? The wliolu beauty of the passage depend] upon this simple emendation. Men. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...These several sounds : which when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief, down dropp'd she on bis lute, And brake her hearti It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | John Ford - 1827 - 712 sidor
...discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. Amet . Now for the bird. Men. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...These several sounds; which, when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief, down dropp'd she on his lute, And brake her heart ! It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1835 - 344 sidor
...differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. J. And what did the bird say, then ? 17. O. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...These several sounds: which, when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief down dropp'd she on his lute, And brake her heart. (After a long pause.) F. I... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 756 sidor
...discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. Amet. Now for the bird. Men. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...These several sounds : which, when her warbling throat Fail'd in, for grief, down dropp'd she on his lute, And brake her heart ! It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 758 sidor
...discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. Amet. Now for the bird. Men. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr, strove...imitate These several sounds : which, when her warbling Fail'd in, for grief, down dropp'd she on his lute, And brake her heart ! It was the quaintest sadness,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1841 - 856 sidor
...lines of dillenng method Meeting in one full centre of delight The bird (ordain'd to be Music's tiret martyr) strove to imitate These several sounds: which when her warbling throat Fail'd in, ihr grief down dropt she on his lute. And brake her heart. It was the quaintest sadness... | |
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