 ... 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
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 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 !" — Izaak Walton. VOICES OF SEA BIRDS. I HAVE noted that the voices of birds have ever something... | |
 | Temperate regions - 1882 - 268 páginas
...of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, ' Lord, what music hast thou provided for saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth?'" As for the character of its song, it seems to be accurately described by Coleridge, when he speaks... | |
 | Burlington B. Wale - 1883 - 234 páginas
...falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above the earth and say, ' Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth?'" Kircher, in his Universal Harmony, endeavours to reduce the notes of the nightingale... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1883 - 366 páginas
...immortality, and we exclaim with friend Izaak Walton, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth ! " I remember that when in China I read that Confucius was noted for his intense passion for music.... | |
 | 1883 - 718 páginas
...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.' " Among Walton's contemporaries who were writers on fish and fishing Barker has been already mentioned.... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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 ? ' Ven. Well, sir, and I will now take my turn, and will first begin with a commendation of the earth,... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1883 - 176 páginas
...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.' " Among Walton's contemporaries who were writers on fish and fishing Barker has been already mentioned.... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 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.' " The Complete Anyler is written in the form of a dialogue or conversation between three persons, an... | |
 | W. Aldridge - 1885 - 158 páginas
...'Complete Angler," a book worthy to be studied by all, whether fishermen or not : " Lord, what psalmody hast Thou provided for Thy saints in heaven when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth ? " FOOD. — Entirely insectivorous. SITUATION OF NERT. — In the grass under hedges, • or amongst... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 páginas
...redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above the earth, and say, ' Lord, what music Thou hast provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music upon the earth.' " But a man must have his soul very much in harmony with this life of joy in order... | |
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