 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.  The Retrospective Review - Página 3041826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 páginas
...it, madam. For. 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...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection!— Peace, hoa! the... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...lark When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. Merchant of Venice, 35. In matters of slight importance, attention is mostly directed by will; and... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1818 - 552 páginas
...bird's being more attended to than others it, that it sings in the night.f Hence Shakespeare says, "The nightingale, if she should sing by day, " When...thought '• No better a musician than the wren." The song of this bird hath been described, and expatiated upon, by several writers, particularly Pliny... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 páginas
...it, madam. Par. 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...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 páginas
...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... | |
 | Frances Moore - 1818 - 630 páginas
...her Ladyship : " Mercy forbid ! you forget " ' The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.' " Then billiards ?" resumed Lord James, with rather more energy than usual. " Oh, worse and worse !"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 páginas
...it, madam. Por. 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...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection !— Peace, hoa !... | |
 | Tales - 1820 - 560 páginas
...The Nightingale. * Smellie's Philosophy of Natural Historj. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one? NIGHTINGALE. I should be sorry to put my... | |
 | 1821 - 276 páginas
...The Nightingale. • Smellie'* Philosophy of Natural History. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing- by day, When...would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one? NIGHTINGALE. I should be sorry to put my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 páginas
...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... | |
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