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 - 1811 - 452 pages
...; Hethinks, it sounds mnch sweeter than hy day. Ner. Silence hestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing hy day, When every goose is cackling, would he thonght No hetter a musician than the wren. How many... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. JVer. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. 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... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...sounds much sweeter than liy day. AVr. Silence bestows that virlueon it, madam. Par. Tile crow does sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and, I think. The nightingale, if she should sina by day, When ev'ry goose U cackling, would be thought No belter a musician than the wren. How... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...respect;' Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Aer. 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 - 1818 - 376 pages
...; Methinks; it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. 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... | |
| Frances Moore - 1818 - 630 pages
...music." ** Music in a morning, Colonel LumJey I" exclaimed her Ladyship : " Mercy forbid ! you forget " ' The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry...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 !"... | |
| Thomas Pennant - 1818 - 552 pages
...sings in the night.f Hence Shakespeare says, "The nightingale, if she should sing by day, " When every goose is cackling, would be 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 - 1819 - 560 pages
...; 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...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... | |
| Tales - 1820 - 560 pages
...Historj. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every Goose is cackling, 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 pages
...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... | |
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