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" But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. "
The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a ... - Page cxxi
by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...adduce on the subject, a morsel of such impressive beauty as the following? " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear ajrs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead, But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,. brea,thes such sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at' midnight, when the very labourer...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that ]<)ves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,, breathes such sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...surprised, perhaps, when I name honest Isaac Walton. But let him read this and j udge. "But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer ileeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descantsi, the natural...
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A Selection from Bishop Horne's Commentary on the Psalms

George Horne, Lindley Murray - Bible - 1812 - 248 pages
...blessings, they pay not their tribute of thanksgiving, and sing not unto the Lord the songs of Sion! "He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I h'ave often done, the clear airs, the sw.eet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...the little linnet, and the honest robin, that; loves mankind bath alivaand dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures^ breathes such sweet loud music, out of. her little. in-t Strumehtal, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal ..., Volume 3

1822 - 592 pages
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1822 - 600 pages
...little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 2

1838 - 504 pages
...honest Isaac Walton, who loved birds almost as well as he loved fish, and says, " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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