 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1848 - 488 σελίδες
...! " He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often done, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast Thou provided... | |
 | Christian seasons - 1849 - 524 σελίδες
...that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very...Thou provided for the saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth.' " Hear again his reasons for contentment, delivered in language... | |
 | 1849 - 736 σελίδες
...the sweei descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say,...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affovdest bad men such music upon earth !" Lamb, in a letter to Coleridge, prays him to make himself... | |
 | 1849 - 698 σελίδες
...had not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural...rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the sweet voice, might well be lifted above the earth, and say, • Lord, what music hast thou provided... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 334 σελίδες
...it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often,...Thou provided for the saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth." The Skylark and the Nightingale are favorites with the poets... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 522 σελίδες
...it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear — as I have very often...Thou provided for the saints in heaven, when Thou affordest to bad men such music upon earth!" — The Complete Angler. To Izaak Walton angling is the... | |
 | William Jones - 1898 - 618 σελίδες
...think miracles are not ceased. lie that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, shuuM hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet...redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above caith, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou alf.ordest... | |
 | William Jones - 1898 - 670 σελίδες
...throat, that it might mate mankind to think miracles art not ceased, lie that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descanls, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, miyht well be lifted... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - 1899 - 400 σελίδες
...it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often,...might well be lifted above earth, and say,' Lord, what 6O FIFTH READER. music hast Thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest such music... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1899 - 424 σελίδες
.... . . breathes sweet, loud music out of her little instrumental throat. ... He that should hear ... the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising...redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above the earth." And now, having passed in review Homer's birds from goose to nightingale, may we not pronounce... | |
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But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,... 
