... ceased. 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,... Mosaics - Página 379de Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 408 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 páginas
...her 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 on earth T " Of these clear Hampshire streams, Howitt says — " The water is so transparent, that it looks... | |
| David H. Williams - 1842 - 382 páginas
...composed his mysterious requiem. Old Walton, while at his favorite pastime, cheered by the singing of the birds, was wont to ejaculate, " Lord, what music hast...thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou aifordest bad men such music on earth ! " How characteristic of Thomson, that he loved to lean out... | |
| 1842 - 740 páginas
...her 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 on earth !' ' The habits of the nightingale are thus described bv Mr. Yarrell :— ' The localities frequented... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 páginas
...her 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 on earth ! And this makes me the less to wonder at the many aviaries in Italy, or at the great charge of Varro's... | |
| 1850 - 638 páginas
...her 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 on earth Г " Truly hers ii a miraculous song, and often does it " smooth the raven down of darkness till it... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 páginas
...her 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 on Earth ! " And this makes me the less to wonder at the many Aviaries in Italy, or at the great charge of Varro... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1844 - 432 páginas
...of her 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 on earth." I have always considered this as one of the most exquisite descriptions in Walton's Angler. No one... | |
| John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 páginas
...her voice, might well be lifted ' above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast ' then provided for the saints in heaven, when ' thou affordest bad men such music on ' earth !' PAINTER. — I now remember that description : it is beyond ray praise; — -it is all music together,... | |
| John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 páginas
...of her 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 on Earth." Such are one or two of good old Isaac's quaint and tender descriptions of nature, which invest his... | |
| 1846 - 860 páginas
...composed his mysterious requiem. Old Walton, while at his feyourite pastime, cheered by the singing of the birds, was wont to ejaculate, ' Lord, what music hast...nightingales, through the long summer nights ; and That a genial resource proved Goldsmith's flute, in his wanderings over the Continent ! Tie effects... | |
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