 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 pages
...fully compensated for the indifference of the depraved courtiers and pensioned authors of Charles II. " The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren."* We abstain from noticing the numerous eulogies and literary notices of the Epic poems in the half century... | |
 | 1826 - 382 pages
...fully compensated for the indifference of the depraved courtiers and pensioned authors of Charles II. " The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren."* We abstain from noticing the numerous eulogies and literary notices of the Epic poems in the half century... | |
 | 1826 - 370 pages
...birds One reason for this preference may be, that it sings in the night; hence Shakespeare says, " The nightingale if she should sing by day, When every...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." But independently of this adventitious recommendation, the nightingale may, on other grounds, boldly... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...world. * A small flat dish, used in the administration of the Eucharist. V NOTHING GOOD OUT OP SEASON. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...NOTHING GOOD OUT OF SEASON. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and7 I think, . The nightingale, if she should sing by...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 pages
...Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. .NIC. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. . Por. Tin- . Whereforeh,] erery goose is cackling, would' be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...; Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestowsthat virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sine by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...no more be delighted with a lie, than the will can choose an apparent evil. — Dryden, DCCCXLIII. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! Shakspcare. DCCCXUV. As a looking-glass, if it is a true one, faithfully represents the face of him... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...can no more be delighted with a lie, than the will can choose an apparent evil.— Dryden. DCCCXLIII. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! SJialcspeare. DCCCXLIV, As a looking-glass, if it is a true one, faithfully represents the face of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...himself; And earthly power does then shew likest God's, When mercy mums justice. Id. Merchant of Venice. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...better a musician than the wren : How many things by seaton seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! Shakspeare. We charge you, that you... | |
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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. 
