 | 1821 - 276 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...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 - 322 pages
...Methinks, 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...season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — . Peace, boa! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd ! . [Music ceasei. Lor.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...it, madam. for. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the When neither is attended ; and, I think, [lark, r royal walks, your hoard, your The. Come now ; what masks, what dancrs And would not be awak'd 1 [Music ceases. Lor. That is the voice, Or I am much deceiv'd, of Portia.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 pages
...myrthfully furth brist." Shakespeare, with an unusual neglect of nature, says, The nightingale, if she would sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a swan. from the works of nature ; and though the uninterrupted silence, which prevails amid the Scottish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 372 pages
...; 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...season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd ! [Musick ceases. Lor. That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...respect ; Methiuks, itsoundsmuch sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. »h made the ewe bleat for the lamb; Youmay as well...of heaven; You may as well do any thing most hard, arc To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Sileuce bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. TJie crow dolh sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended;...better a musician, than the wren. How many things by seasonseason'd are To their right praise, and true perfection! — Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with... | |
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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. 
