 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
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 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!" The Compleat Angler, I, chap. i. SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1605-1682 CONTEMPT OF DEATH I HAVE so abject a conceit... | |
 | 1929 - 622 páginas
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 | 1921 - 286 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 ! ' " The difference between this and the stuff of poetry is surely not, despite the cheap generalisation... | |
 | Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - 1924 - 148 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...heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth ? " 89. Yet, by his ear directed, guessed Something imprisoned in the chest, And, doubtful what, with... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1925 - 502 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 ! " And this makes me the less to wonder at the many aviaries in Italy, or at the great charge of Varro... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - 1925 - 268 páginas
...doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say ' Lord, what musick hast Thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such musick on Earth ! ' " Above all, we find the most perfect prose-rhythm in that miracle of great literature,... | |
 | 1924 - 260 páginas
...value. When Izaak Walton, after describing the songs of the skylark, thrush, and nightingale, said, " Lord, what music hast Thou provided for the saints...when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth." he was but giving voice to the bird within him. When Burns wrote, " I never hear the loud solitary... | |
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