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. Elements of Criticism - Page 373by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ëë-. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark. When neither...think. The nightingale, if she should sing by day. When every goose is cackling, would be tnought No better a musician than the wren. N How many things by... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...himself; And earthly power does then shew likest God's, When mercy mums justice. Id. Merchant of Venice. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren : How many things by seaton... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 484 pages
...;k 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...think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...?Iethinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. JVer. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. For- The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...much sweeter than by day. Jfcr. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam« Per. The crow doth sin;.' as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ;...think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day. When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 pages
...with a new sense, and the slightest sound attracts our attention. Shakspcare has marked even this. "The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark "When neither...The nightingale, if she should sing by day, " When every goose is cackling, would he thought " No better a musician than the wren." It is on the same... | |
| Anna Brownell Jameson - 1832 - 378 pages
...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...think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 pages
...the slightest sound attracts our attention. Shakspearc has marked even this. ' The crow doth sing is sweetly as the lark ' When neither is attended ; and,...The nightingale, if she should sing by day, ' When every goose is cackling, would he thought ' No better a musician than the wren." It is on the sam*... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...5) Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Her. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant...house of life: And, on the winking of authority, To un every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season... | |
| Nathan Hale - 1833 - 192 pages
...hours, and who had more than once been heard to soliloquize on paucity of taste, (repeating, " The wren doth sing as sweetly as the lark, when neither is attended. And I think the nightingale, were she to sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the... | |
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