 Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in...  Uncle Oliver's Travels: Persia - Sida 265efter John Kitto - 1835Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 sidor
...all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wondered too. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every...pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1879 - 230 sidor
...could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking inslrument than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes...pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 sidor
...did the rivals part ? Men. You term them rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, harmony. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...pretty anger, that a bird Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 sidor
...did the rivals part? Men. You term them rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, Harmony. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...pretty anger, that a bird Whom art had never taught cliff's, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 sidor
...1 en-count'ered, befel. - " 2 ch&r'is-ters, chorus-singers. 8 un-der --takes' ', assumes, accepts. Some time -thus spent, the young man grew at last...pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught clefs,5 moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 sidor
...rightly; For they were rivals, and their mistress, Harmony. ' Some time thus spent, the young m«n grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird "Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 sidor
...rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, harmony.— Some time thus spent, the young man grow ; The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, cliffs, moods, or notes, Should Tie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 182 sidor
...hear again. MEXAPHON. You term them rightly; For they were rivals, and their mistress, harmony. — Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...pretty anger, that a bird Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | John Ford - 1888 - 508 sidor
...Philips, and others. Men. You term them rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, harmony. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 470 sidor
...Melancholy, i. 1, in the beautiful passage describing the meeting of Menaphon and Eroclea: The young roan grew at last Into a pretty anger that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes . . . —Ford's Works, vol. ip 15. Steevens, too, refers to The Chances: Will... | |
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