 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...madam« Per. The crow doth sin;.' as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day. When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season xason'd are To their tight praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa !... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 380 pages
...attended to than others is, that it sings in the night ;" and if we believe with Shakespeare, that The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a wren, what must we think of that bird, who, in the. glare of day, when a multitude of songsters are... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...mine own teaching. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! How far that little... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - Birds - 1832 - 576 pages
...attended to than others is, that it sings in the night ;" and if we believe, with Shakespeare, that The Nightingale, if she should sing by day When every...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a Wren, what must we think of that bird, •who, in the glare of day, when a multitude of songsters... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...even this. ' The crow doth sing is sweetly as the lark ' When neither is attended ; and, I think, ' The nightingale, if she should sing by day, ' When every goose is cackling, would he thought ' No better a musician than the wren." It is on the sam* principle, that people, dwelling... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...surrounding objects : The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. Merchant of Venice. 35. In matters of slight importance, attention is mostly directed by will; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...it, madam. Par. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, of life: And, on the winking of authority, To understand...law; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection! — Peace, him !... | |
 | Nathan Hale - Winnipesaukee, Lake (N.H.) - 1833 - 192 pages
...doth sing as sweetly as the lark, when neither is attended. And I think the nightingale, were she to sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren,") and who had been frost bitten for some time, now had his tongue thawed. The gentleman was talkative,... | |
 | Penruddock - 1835 - 1122 pages
...established." CHAPTER XIII. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. W REN Walter Rayland's companions returned to their camp, they arranged themselves round the table... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1835 - 470 pages
...heard, and the silence and stillness of the hour. In the words of Shakspeare — "The nightingale if he should sing by day, When every goose is cackling,...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1. I cannot, however, fully subscribe to this, as I have frequently... | |
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The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. 
