 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every...several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The Nightingale,... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 pages
...all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'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 instrument than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wondered too. 3. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled 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 instrument than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'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 instrument than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1869 - 746 pages
...wouder'd too Amet. And so do I ; good ! on — Men. A nightingale, Knljjrf'a hp<tjjkiH'iLmiiaini.inr undertakes The challenge, and for every several 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,... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 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...several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...heard. I wonder'd too A nightingale, Nature.s best skill'd musician, undertakes The Sands of Dee. 247 The challenge ; and for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang Viim down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she, The... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1870 - 374 pages
...Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'ry several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down; He could not...with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, Phillips, and others; but none of these versions can at all compare for harmony and grace with this... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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 division1 with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale,... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...variety and harmony, Proclaiming (as it seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear qniristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood...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,... | |
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