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
| Sir John Collings Squire - 1920 - 806 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,... | |
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