 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...three-quarters of an ounce. Its colors are dark brown above and grayish white below. Izaak Walton says : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of the little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1890 - 680 pages
...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight . . . should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet decants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and re-doubling of her voice, might well be lifted... | |
 | Isaac Bassett Choate - English literature - 1891 - 356 pages
...he looked upon Nature and listened to her voices. There is room here but for a single paragraph. " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...very laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling... | |
 | John Wilson - Natural history - 1891 - 354 pages
...only its meagre skeleton remains. Isaac Walton, in his quaint eloquence, tries to say what he felt: "The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight .... should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1892 - 300 pages
...laverock, the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and ailing the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord,... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - Birds in literature - 1892 - 446 pages
...song in the same ardent manner as honest Isaak Walton, the angler, did when he said, " The nightingale breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental...mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at night, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the... | |
 | Music - 1896 - 710 pages
...melody Could melt into such sweet variety." And dear old Izaak Walton, has this quaint description: "But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, shall... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...three-quarters of an ounce. Its colors are dark brown above and grayish white below. Izaak Walton says : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of the little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that... | |
 | Simeon Pease Cheney - Birdsongs - 1892 - 292 pages
...pp. 705-707.) "Bat the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, load magic oat of her little instrumental throat that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 628 pages
...laverock, the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the... | |
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But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,... 
