 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 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... | |
 | Carson Samuel Duncan - English literature - 1918 - 204 pages
...struggling with ornateness for free expression. "But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat,...that it might make mankind to think miracles are not yet ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1913 - 314 pages
...it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweetdescants, thenatural rising and falling, the doubling and redoublingof her voice, might well belifted... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1916 - 344 pages
...loves mankind both alive and dead. ' But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes guch sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat,...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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 264 pages
...the Tit-lark, and 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Birds - 1920 - 342 pages
...in the familiar passage in Izaak Walton, his simple expressions of delight in the singer "breathing such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased." The subject of the nightingale's superiority as a singer does not, however,... | |
 | Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - Literary style - 1924 - 148 pages
...harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons. 88. 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... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - English language - 1925 - 268 pages
...in its sense, from that most companionable of books, The Corn-pleat Angler by old Izaak Walton : " But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud musick out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...sound as in its sense, from that most companionable of books, The Compleat Angler by old Izaak Walton: "But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud musick out of her little instrumental throat, that it might .make mankind to think that miracles are... | |
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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,... 
