 Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in...  Uncle Oliver's Travels: Persia - Page 265by John Kitto - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wondered too. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled musician, undertakes The challenge; and, for every...pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1870 - 374 pages
...did the rivals part? Men. You term them rightly, For they were rivals, and their mistress harmony. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...that a bird Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice: To... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...167. FROM THE LOVERS MELANCHOLY. 163 For they were rivals, and their mistress, Harmony. Some minutes thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty...that a bird, Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice: To... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...undertakes The challenge; and, for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own. He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking...pretty anger; that a bird, Whom art had never taught eleSs, moods, or note*, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1872 - 438 pages
...dowr Upon his quaking instrument, than she The nightingale did with her various note; Kcply to. Sonic time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger; that a bird, Whom art hud never taught cliffs, moods or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1873 - 562 pages
...their mistress, Harmony. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last POETRY OF CRASHAW. Ixxxiii Into a pretty anger, that a bird, , Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him 'for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...divisions with more art Upon his quaking instrument than ah«, The nightingale, did with her various notée n thee bestow. Since that dear voice which did thy soumis approve. or notée, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...the rivals part ? MEN. You term them rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, Harmony. — Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...that a bird Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice :... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...did the rivals part ? Men. You term them rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, Harmony. the festival goblet, and, after the Egyptian manner,...serve up a dead man's bones at a feast : I will only cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...the rivals part ? MK\. You term them rightly ; For they were rivals, and their mistress, Harmony. — Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into...that a bird Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, -whose study Had busied many bom's to perfect practice :... | |
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