 | Thomas Pennant - 1818 - Страниц: 552
...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... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - Страниц: 464
...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 - Страниц: 630
...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 - Страниц: 560
...; Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ncr. 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 !— Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with EndymioD, And would not be awak'd Г ^Mustek ctatct. Lor. That... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - Страниц: 458
...termination of a confined view, is more agreeable than when seen in a group with the surrounding objects : The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...; and I think, The nightingale, if she should sing hy day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician then the wren. Merchant... | |
 | Tales - 1820 - Страниц: 560
...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 - Страниц: 276
...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 - Страниц: 550
...Mi-thinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. NER. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. FOR. The 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - Страниц: 548
...nightingale ', 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 ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd 2 ! [Musick ceases. « —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - Страниц: 436
...Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. JVer. 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 !— Peace, boa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd I [Juvsic ceases. Lor. That... | |
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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. 
