 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 pagina’s
...morning, and which then seemed nothing but bustle." i _ And in the same spirit Portia moralises :— The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...musician than the wren. How many things by season, seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! Nor will Coleridge allow the song of the nightingale... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pagina’s
...no more be delighted with a lie, than '.he will can choose an apparent evil. — Dryden. DCCCXLIIL The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season season 'd are To their nght praise and true perfection ! Shakspeare. DCCCXLIV. As a looking-glass,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pagina’s
...This Midnight pomp, This gorgeous Arch, with golden worlds inlaid ! Built with divine Ambition. 'J'HE Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...season'd are To their right praise and true Perfection ! Q NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pagina’s
...syllable in the metrical section, as in the following lines from the " Merchant of Venice :" — " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." In these blank trimeters, properly read, there is a major and a minor accent in even' section. Shakespeare,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1857 - 474 pagina’s
...Shakspeare has marked even this. " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is aiiended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." It is on the jgame principle that people dwelling m the vicinity of waterfalls do not appear to notice... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagina’s
...good, I see, without respect : Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows the virtue on it, madam. Par. The crow doth sing as sweetly...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! THE EXILED DCKE'S PHILOSOPHY. As you like... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson, Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1858 - 314 pagina’s
...easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season, seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! How far that little candle throws his beams... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 832 pagina’s
...Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. NEH. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Ров. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...When every goose is cackling, would be thought No bcttc^ a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pagina’s
...respect;1 Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — 2 Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion,' And would not be awak'd! [Music ceases. Lor. That... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pagina’s
...; Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season scason'd are To their right praise and true perfection !— Peace ! How the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
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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 No better a musician than the wren. 
