 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 strani
...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...sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise,... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 strani
...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 strani
...; 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...sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1818 - 552 strani
...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 every goose is cackling, would be thought '• No better a musician than the wren." The song of this bird hath been described, and expatiated... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 strani
...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 goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than a Wren," what must we think of that bird, who in the glare of day,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 strani
...; 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...sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 strani
...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 strani
...The Nightingale. * Smellie's Philosophy of Natural Historj. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every Goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 strani
...Mi-thinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. NER. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. FOR. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale 1, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a mucician than... | |
 | 1821 - 276 strani
...The Nightingale. • Smellie'* Philosophy of Natural History. SHOWMAN. Shakspeare, I remember, says, The Nightingale, if she should sing- by day, When every Goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the Wren. Do you consider this remark of the great poet a just one?... | |
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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. 
