 | Charles H. Hinnant - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 300 pages
...player and nightingale in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy,26 the lute player is described as growing "at last / Into a pretty anger, that a bird, / Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, / Should vie with him for mastery" (11. 133-37). The poet's raillery — only... | |
 | Anthropology - 1893 - 520 pages
...much easier to believe That such they were than hope to hear again. AMET. How did the rivals part ? MEN. You term them rightly, For they were rivals,...taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for master}', whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice ; To end the controversy, in a rapture... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...is much easier to believe That such they were than hope to hear again. AM. How did the rivals part ? strife For truths which men receive not now, Thy...friendless warfare ! lingering long Through weary clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect... | |
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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 end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick,... 
