 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...: Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...without respect ; Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. . . . Silence bestows that virtue on it The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...better a musician than the wren. How many things by seasons season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! 9 — v. 1 .208. Music. Do but note... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...the silent heaven Thy lone and melancholy voice was given. Dana. SEASONS. 565 SEASONS. THE crow does sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended;...musician than the wren. How many things by season season d are To their right praise, and true perfection! Shakspere. Perceivest thou not the process... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...shines a good deed in a naughty world. KOTIIING GOOD OUT OP SEiSON. The crow doth sing as sweetly as Ihe lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, The...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection I—- Peace, hoaf the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 424 pages
...; Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. JVer. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasou'd are J To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...no more be delighted with a lie, than '.he will can choose an apparent evil. — Dryden. DCCCXLIIL The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season season 'd are To their nght praise and true perfection ! Shakspeare. DCCCXLIV. As a looking-glass,... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...syllable in the metrical section, as in the following lines from the " Merchant of Venice :" — " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." In these blank trimeters, properly read, there is a major and a minor accent in even' section. Shakespeare,... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson, Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1858 - 314 pages
...easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season, seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! How far that little candle throws his beams... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...respect : Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows the virtue on it, madam. Par. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! THE EXILED DCKE'S PHILOSOPHY. As you like... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...; Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season scason'd are To their right praise and true perfection !— Peace ! How the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
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The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. 
