 | William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1892 - 120 pages
...for. Nothing is good, I see, without respect : Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. 100 JVer. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. For. The...day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought 105 No better a musician than the wren. 80. By all means look up the poet's two other allusions to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1892 - 202 pages
...it sounds much sweeter than by day. too Nerissa. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Portia. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. If> How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — - ' Peace,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1892 - 220 pages
...Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Neris. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Portia. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. i6 the first Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - Birds in literature - 1892 - 446 pages
...be found quoted — Shakespeare's Portia paid little tribute to the wren's voice when she said — " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." This is damning with faint praise a pure and lively strain — a strain sometimes heard even, as Graham... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...Damasccn. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn, and defeat. If. H. Thomson. n get his living without dishonest customs. Emerson....classes : * Chawfori. Society is divisible into tw Мет. of I 'mice, vi The crowd ... if they find Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1896 - 710 pages
...but in part, is an unjustifiable piece of rashness and folly." 4. Analyze or diagram: [20 credits.] The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. — Merchant of Tentée. 7. What rules for punctuation are illustrated by the marks given in the linee... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - English language - 1896 - 280 pages
...(81) The man to solitude accustomed long Perceives in everything that lives a tongue. — Cowper. (82) The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren. — Merchant of Venice. (83) If in some distant planet lying were as essential to human welfare as... | |
 | William Smythe Babcock Mathews - Music - 1897 - 858 pages
...by moonlight, or .on the water; as may be illustrated by the following quotations: MUSIC AT NIGHT. Music! hark! Ner. It is your music, madam, of the...every goose is cackling, would be thought No better musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection!... | |
 | Music - 1897 - 838 pages
...Ner. It is your music, madam, of the house. For. Nothing is good, I see, without respect: Moth inks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows...every goose is cackling, would be thought No better musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection!... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1897 - 480 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... | |
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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. 
