... 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
| Alfred Elliott - 1872 - 246 páginas
...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 ! ' " It is in a similar spirit that every honest, truthful English boy should study the phenomena... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin Prime - 1872 - 482 páginas
...Walton's pious ejaculation as he listened to their melody, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth !" After spending the Sabbath at Mayence, we went to Worms, recalling, as we entered the city, the... | |
| 1877 - 602 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 ? ' " Who, that has heard this noble bird scattering its vocal sounds, like gems, over the tree-tops... | |
| Worthington Hooker - 1872 - 396 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 !" Mr. Wood remarks of the song of this bird, " It must be borne in mind that not only in this bird,... | |
| William Chambers - 1873 - 86 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 ! ' Nightingales became a kind of study, and we picked up a few particulars regarding them. Herts is... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 596 páginas
...to the song of countless visitors from far-off climes, shall we not say, with old Isaac Walton — Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints...heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth ? THE ART UNION EXHIBITION. THE recurrence of the Annual Exhibition of our two-year-old Art Union is... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 622 páginas
...to the song of countless visitors from far-off climes, shall we not say, with old Isaac WaltonLord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth ? THE ART UNION EXHIBITION. THE recurrence of the Annual Exhibition of our two-year-old Art Union is... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1874 - 382 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!'" Most of the poets describe the Nightingale as a melancholy and complaining bird, thus Thompson says,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 646 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 ?' * Nothing is too homely for honest Izaak to dignify. When ought we to begin fishing ? ' When the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 612 páginas
...of her voice, might well bo 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 ?' * Nothing is too homely for honest Izaak to dignify. When ought we to begin fishing? ' When the... | |
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