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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. "
Elements of Criticism - Page 373
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 2

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...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 3

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...
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A year and a day, by madame Panache

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 !"...
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Class II, Birds, Div. II, Water

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...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

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...
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Tales of the academy

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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

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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