 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 pages
...Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...The nightingale did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
 | John Ford - 1811 - 522 pages
...Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'iy several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...' with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than &he, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. For a voice, and for a sound, Amethus, 'tis... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1813 - 502 pages
...Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge; and, for every several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...The nightingale did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 422 pages
...The challenge, and for ev'ry several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her own; Hi could not run division with more art Upon his quaking...nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to." Oh ! had it eyes, and ears, and tongues, it might See sport, hear speech of most strange surquedries... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816 - 424 pages
...several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her own; He could not nm dirisio* witk morr art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to." Oh ! had it eyes, and ears, and tongues, it might See sport, hear speech of most strange surquedries... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'ry several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not...various notes Reply to. For a voice, and for a sound, Amelhus, 'lis much easier to believe That such they were, than hope to hear again. J'ad. How did the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1824 - 312 pages
...every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she,...nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the yonng man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1825 - 312 pages
...well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his qnaking instrument than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1828 - 250 pages
...He could not run divisions with more art The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him dowiiUpon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Should vie with... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 478 pages
...The challenge ; and for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own : He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking...The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to ... Amrt. How did the rivals part ? Mm. You term them rightly ; I, For they were rivals, and their... | |
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He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she The nightingale did with her various notes Reply to. 
