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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,... "
The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton:: Extensively ... - Page 10
by Izaak Walton - 1824 - 416 pages
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 pages
...prose-writer. Who can adduce on the subject, a morsel of such impressive beauty as the following? " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear ajrs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...leverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that ]<)ves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,,...sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...leverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead, But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,....sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at' midnight, when the very labourer...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 pages
...reader will be surprised, perhaps, when I name honest Isaac Walton. But let him read this and judge. " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer deeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet il< scants I, the natural...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 pages
...might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer ileeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descantsi, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be...
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A Selection from Bishop Horne's Commentary on the Psalms

George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...blessings, they pay not their tribute of thanksgiving, and sing not unto the Lord the songs of Sion! "He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I h'ave often done, the clear airs, the sw.eet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...leverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that; loves mankind bath alivaand dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures^...breathes such sweet loud music, out of. her little. in-t Strumehtal, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pages
...Leverock, the Titlark, the little Linnet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have Tery often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1822 - 600 pages
...laverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...laverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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