| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down He could not run divisions with more art 1Jpon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. 4. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had... | |
| Great Britain - 1855 - 492 pages
...Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; tha,ta bird, Whom art had never... | |
| William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pages
...competitor, a fair-faced youth, whose study had busied many hours to perfect practice on his lute, could not run division with more art Upon his quaking...The nightingale did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the " well-shaped youth " grew at last into " a pretty anger," that a bird, "... | |
| 1860 - 520 pages
...hours to perfect practice on his lute, could not * Black's Life of Tasso. f Indicator, May 17, 1820. run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument,...than she The nightingale did with her various notes Keply to. Some time thus spent, the " well-shaped youth " grew at last into " a pretty anger," that... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...The nightingale did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
| Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 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...nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries,... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang her down ; He could not run division with more art...Nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
| W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 238 pages
...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...nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
| W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...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...nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...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...Nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
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