 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'iy several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...' with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than &he, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. For a voice, and for a sound, Amethus, 'tis... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1824 - 312 pages
...about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they beard. I wonder'd too, A nightingale, N ill urn's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ;...several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English essays - 1825 - 312 pages
...clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too, A nightingale....several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 682 pages
...they heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I; good! on — Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for every...strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 712 pages
...versions, however, can at all compare for harmony and grace with this before us. Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for every...strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 396 pages
...heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I ; good ! on — Men, A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for every...strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...heard. — I wonder'd too— Am> t. And so do I, — good ! on — Mia. A nighting&le, Nature's best musician, undertakes The challenge ; and for every...strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own : He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 756 pages
...heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I ; good ! on — Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for every...strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her He could not run division with more art [own ; Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - English drama - 1840 - 758 pages
...heard. I wouder'd too. Amet. And so do I ; good ! on — Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for every...strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her He could not run division with more art [own ; Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1841 - 856 pages
...all stood silent. Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A nightingale, Nature's hest-skiU'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and for every...several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking insirument than she. The nightingale,... | |
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The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to... 
