 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 that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should...  The Pamphleteer - Page 141825Full view - About this book
 | Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 pages
...prose-writer. Who can adduce on the subject, a morsel of such impressive beauty as the following? " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that ]<)ves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,, breathes...sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead, But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,. brea,thes...sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at' midnight, when the very labourer... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 pages
...will be surprised, perhaps, when I name honest Isaac Walton. But let him read this and judge. " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer deeps securely, should hear, as... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that; loves mankind bath alivaand dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures^ breathes such sweet loud music, out of. her little. in-t Strumehtal, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when... | |
 | 1823 - 782 pages
...the Titlark, the little Lionet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. " But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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,... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...natural terms than honest Isaac Walton, who loved birds almost as well as he loved fish, and says, " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes...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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