 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 strani
...with a new sense, and the slightest sound attracts our attention. Shakspcare has marked even this. "The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark "When neither...sing by day, " When every goose is cackling, would he thought " No better a musician than the wren." It is on the same principle, that people, dwelling... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 strani
...the slightest sound attracts our attention. Shakspearc has marked even this. ' The crow doth sing is sweetly as the lark ' When neither is attended ; and,...sing by day, ' When every goose is cackling, would he thought ' No better a musician than the wren." It is on the sam* principle, that people, dwelling... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 strani
...attended to than others is, that it sings in the night ;" and if we believe, with Shakespeare, 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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 518 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...sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. Merchant of Venice. 35. In matters of slight importance,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 strani
...5) Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Her. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant...authority, To understand a law; to know the meanin thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise,... | |
 | Nathan Hale - 1833 - 192 strani
...hours, and who had more than once been heard to soliloquize on paucity of taste, (repeating, " The wren doth sing as sweetly as the lark, when neither is attended. And I think the nightingale, were she to sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the... | |
 | 1834 - 766 strani
...Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Air. — Silence bestows the 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. Merchant of Venice. I stood one day in the Bookseller's... | |
 | Penruddock - 1835 - 1122 strani
...servants in their endeavour to serve you, till vour health is perfectly established." CHAPTER XIII. 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. W REN Walter Rayland's companions returned to their camp,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 strani
...l Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. 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 seasoned are To their right praise,... | |
 | BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 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 belter a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise,,... | |
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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. 
