 ... 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 natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth,...  The Optimist - Page 67by Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth 1 * * * There is also a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aerial element, namely,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth I * * * There is also a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aerial element, namely,... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pages
...and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord ! what music hast thou provided for thy saints...in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth."' Mr. Coleridge has vindicated the sprightliness of the nightingale's tones in a poem,... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...and falling, the doubling, and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord ! what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affprdest bad men such music upon earth." It is generally believed that • Vide ray Essay on " Oruilhology... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 pages
...of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth! And this makes me the less to wonder at the many Aviaries in Italy, or at the great charge of Varro... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou afFordest bad men such music on earth !" Again :—" When I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, ' Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth!' " The localities frequented by the nightingale are woods having thick undergrowth, low coppices, plantations,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 pages
...falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above the earth, and say, ' Lord ! what music hast thou provided for thy saints...in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth8.'" Kircher, in his Universal Harmony3, endeavours to reduce the notes of the nightingale... | |
 | 1823 - 772 pages
...her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say ; bord, what music hast i In m provided for the saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth !" He then returns to his hawks, which he says are usually distinguished into two kinds, " the long-winged... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pages
...of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth ! And this makes me the less to wonder at the many Aviaries in Italy, or at the great charge of Varro... | |
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