 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,...  Brambles and Bay Leaves: Essays on Things Homely and Beautiful - Page 35by Shirley Hibberd - 1862 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided...in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth I * * * There is also a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aerial element,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided...in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth 1 * * * There is also a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aerial element,... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - Bible - 1812 - 248 pages
...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 for the saints in heaven, when thou affbrdest bad men such music upon earth !" Walton's Complete Angler, p. 9. * Wesley's Surrey of the... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord ! what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth."' Mr. Coleridge has vindicated the sprightliness of the nightingale's tones in a poem, rich in Miltonic... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...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...the saints " in heaven, when thou affordest bad men iuch music upon " earth fâ (Complete Angier, P. /. Ck. I.) And that between men perfectly congenial... | |
 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...the natural 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 in Heaven, when thou aftbrdest bad men such music on Earth '." He then returns to his hawks, which he says *re usually distinguished... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 576 pages
...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...when thou affordest bad men such " music upon earth !" Walton's Complete Angler/ p. 9. 13. He watereth the hills from his chambers : the earth is satisfied... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided...in heaven, when thou afFordest bad men such music on earth !" Again :â" When I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power and wisdom... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, ' Lord, what music hast thou provided...in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth!' " The localities frequented by the nightingale are woods having thick undergrowth, low coppices,... | |
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