 But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...  Littell's Living Age - Page 5731907Full view - About this book
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 438 pages
...Creation, i. 149. the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say,...in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth !" Walton's Complete Angler, p. 9. 13. He watereth the hills from his chambers : the earth... | |
 | William Macgillivray - 1839 - 578 pages
...think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet...Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth T " After the period at which the young are hatched, the Nightingale is seldom heard, and its song... | |
 | 536 pages
...at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear the clear airs, the sweet descents, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...when thou affordest bad men such music on earth!" Swallows have been taught to carry letters between two armies ; and when the Turks besieged Malta,... | |
 | Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...miracle* arc not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, u I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants,...rising and falling, the doubling and re-doubling of her Toice, might well be lifted nbove the earth, and say, " Lord, what music ha* thou provided for the... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1839 - 536 pages
...think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants B 3 the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted... | |
 | William Howitt - Durham (England : County) - 1840 - 548 pages
...sentiment than that which he penned down when he heard the nightingales singing, as he sate angling — " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints...Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth ! " — Complete Angler, p. 10, Major's edition. VISIT TO WINCHESTER. OOLLEOK GAIK-.VAY. WYKEHAM'S... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...miserable death. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural...rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say : "Lord! what music hast thou provided... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...WALTON. HE that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often done, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might^well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided... | |
 | William Howitt - Durham (England) - 1840 - 560 pages
...sentiment than that which he penned down when he heard the nightingales singing, as he sate angling — " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in Heaven, when thou aifordest bad men such music on Earth!" — Complete Angler, p. 10, Major's edition. VISIT TO WINCHESTER.... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...prettily mo ralised upon it; — " He that, at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet...when thou affordest bad men such music on earth." And who, amongst the many that have treated of the " warbling woodland," did I not then bring to mind... | |
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