All the sounds that nature utters are delightful, — at least in this country. I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save... The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 50edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...should not, perhaps, find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account...not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody; but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...should not, perhaps, find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying ofan ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not, indeed,... | |
| G. Clifford Dent - 1914 - 312 pages
...should not, perhaps, find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1915 - 338 pages
...of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account as musical, save and except always the braying of an...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard,... | |
| University of Calcutta - 1915 - 794 pages
...Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not count musical, save and except always the braying of an...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody ; but a goose upon a common , or in a... | |
| George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1918 - 286 pages
...defenders escaped into the castle — the shrieks and cries which you hear tell the fate of the others. 4. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without...not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody ; but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard,... | |
| Robert Lynd - 1920 - 256 pages
...jingled in his pocket ; and the mildly fantastic tastes to which he confesses in such a paragraph as : I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1922 - 328 pages
...should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard,... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...should not, perhaps, find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I head and smile), Could those few pleasant days again...would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart — I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody; but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
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