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 a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly... Uncle Oliver's travels, Persia [by J. Kitto]. - Page 265by John Kitto - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Helen Philbrook Patten - English poetry - 1905 - 223 pages
...the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study...a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines... | |
 | Ella Fuller Maitland - English literature - 1907 - 249 pages
...the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study...a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 580 pages
...young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, 133 Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study...a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, 140 Concord in discord, lines... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 1100 pages
...the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study...a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines... | |
 | 1880
...the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, y a hurrying crowd, And fiery hearts and armed hands...gushed the life-blood of her brave, Gushed, warm with So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines... | |
 | Anthropology - 1893
...anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for master}', whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice...a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of... | |
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