 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, and say, Lord,...  Black's Guide to the South-eastern Counties of England: Hampshire and the ... - Página 7101861 - 554 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1835 - 284 páginas
...the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affbrdest bad men such music upon earth. — IZAAK WALTON. FAMILIAR ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE.... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 438 páginas
...the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's 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 upon earth !" Walton's Complete Angler, p. 9. 13. He watereth the hills from his chambers : the earth... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 páginas
...doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music has 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... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1836 - 296 páginas
...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 on earth ! ' " So various, sweet, and continued are the notes of this bird, that the song of most other warblers,... | |
 | William Macgillivray - 1839 - 578 páginas
...and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth and say, ' Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints...Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth T " After the period at which the young are hatched, the Nightingale is seldom heard, and its song... | |
 | 536 páginas
...rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, "Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints...when thou affordest bad men such music on earth!" Swallows have been taught to carry letters between two armies ; and when the Turks besieged Malta,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 548 páginas
...any other sentiment than that which he penned down when he heard the nightingales singing, as he sate angling — " Lord, what music hast thou provided...Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth ! " — Complete Angler, p. 10, Major's edition. VISIT TO WINCHESTER. OOLLEOK GAIK-.VAY. WYKEHAM'S... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 páginas
...the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's 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 upon earth! — IZAAK WALTON. SOME months before his death, Sir Henry Wotton became retired and contemplative... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 540 páginas
...any other sentiment than that which he penned down when he heard the nightingales singing, as he sate angling — " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in Heaven, when thou affbrdest bad men such music on Earth ! "— Complete Angler, p. 10, Major's edition. VISIT TO WINCHESTER.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 páginas
...the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say : "Lord! what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou offerest bad men sucb music on earth ?" — Walton. LONDON: Published by GEORGE BERGER, Holywell Street,... | |
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