 The crow doth 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 105 No better a musician than the wren.  The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Sida 34efter Reuben Percy - 1826Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 sidor
...may boldly challenge : one reason, however, of this Bird's being more attended to than others, is, that it sings in the night. Hence Shakespeare says,..." The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry Ooose is cackling, would be theught No better a tnusician than a Wren." Mr. Barrington once kept... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 sidor
...certainly may boldly challenge : one reason, however, of this bird's being more attended to than others is, that it sings in the night. Hence Shakespeare says,...nightingale, if she should sing by day. When every goo»e U cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. The song of this bird hath... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1807 - 234 sidor
...dew, And heartless joys with flaunting sun-beam wither, Softly I hum'd my pensive song to you.1 t " The Nightingale, if she should sing by DAY, When every...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the Hen." This certainly may be deemed hyperbole — but who will not pardon the extravagance of an enthusiasm... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 sidor
...attended to than others is, that " it sings in the night;" and if we believe with Shakspeare, that " The Nightingale, if she should sing by day When every...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 sidor
...crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale 1, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a mucician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection... | |
 | Levi Frisbie - 1823 - 310 sidor
...streams, and the hum of insects. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank." ****** •' I think the nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a wren." In conformity with this law of our nature, the tendency of health, is to produce cheerfulness... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 sidor
...myrthfully furth brist." Shakespeare, with an unusual neglect of nature, says, The nightingale, if she would sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a swan. from the works of nature ; and though the uninterrupted silence, which prevails amid the Scottish... | |
 | 1823 - 496 sidor
...nightingale seems to have been almost universally fixed upon as the most capital of singing birds. Onereason for this preference may be, that it sings in the night ; hence Shakspeaie says, ' The nightingale if the »hnuld ting by day. When every ROOM- it cackling, would... | |
 | Andrew Wilkie - 1824 - 348 sidor
...the varieties of provincial dia,. lects. The nightingale seems to have been almost universally fixed upon as the most capital of singing birds. One reason..." The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When erery goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren." But independently of... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 704 sidor
...then produced a madrigal or a song, were much more regarded than MiJton." " Tlie nightingale, if he should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren."t — SHAKSPKARE. 04. Nov. 1674. See the two preceding reigns; and the division of the HISTORIANS... | |
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