 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.  The World's Best Poetry ... - Page 15edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...sounds much sweeter than liy day. AVr. Silence bestows that virlueon it, madam. Par. Tile crow does sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and, I think. The nightingale, if she should sina by day, When ev'ry goose U cackling, would be thought No belter a musician than the wren. How... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...respect;' Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Aer. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. For. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection!— Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...termination of a confined view, is more agreeable than when seen in a group with the surrounding objects : The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. Merchant of Venice, 35.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 pages
...; Methinks; it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. The 'crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1818 - 552 pages
...bird's being more attended to than others it, that it sings in the night.f Hence Shakespeare says, "The nightingale, if she should sing by day, " When...thought '• No better a musician than the wren." The song of this bird hath been described, and expatiated upon, by several writers, particularly Pliny... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 pages
...attended to than others is, that " it sings in the night;" and if we believe with Shakspeare, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...; Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ncr. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection !— Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with EndymioD,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 pages
...termination of a confined view, is more agreeable than when seen in a group with the surrounding objects : The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...; and I think, The nightingale, if she should sing hy day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician then the wren. Merchant... | |
 | Tales - 1820 - 560 pages
...The Nightingale. * Smellie's Philosophy of Natural Historj. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one? NIGHTINGALE. I should be sorry to put my... | |
 | 1821 - 276 pages
...The Nightingale. • Smellie'* Philosophy of Natural History. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing- by day, When...would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one? NIGHTINGALE. I should be sorry to put my... | |
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