 Russia, very pleasing; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose...  Catalogue - Harvard University - Page 224by Harvard University - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour, for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or .in a farmyard, is no bad performer... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that 1 might hang him up in the parlour, for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 458 pages
...oneexception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common,...to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed ef all hues, will keep out of my way, I have no objection to any of the rest; on the contrary, in whatever... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 462 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all ourbirdsand fowlsplease me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard, is no bad performer... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard, is no bad performer... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour fur the sake of his melody; but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard, is no had performer... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...alwa)'s the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard, is no bad performer... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1817 - 328 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and flowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm yard, is no bad performer;... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...only the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common or in a farm-yard is no bad performer... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang lim up in the parlour f<# the sake of his melody', nit a goose upon a common, or in a farm yard, i»... | |
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