 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pàgines
...it, madam. For. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace,... | |
 | John Hay Drummond-Hay, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake - 1844 - 292 pàgines
...overpower the peals of a rival sufferer perched on an opposite tree. How truly has Portia said— " The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be though: No better a musician than the wren." Here this bird of sorrow loses all her sentiment. The... | |
 | Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay - 1844 - 372 pàgines
...perched on an opposite tree. How truly has Portia said — " The nightingale, if she should sing by diy, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren." Here this bird of sorrow loses all her sentiment. The gardeners are now occupied in calling... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pàgines
...it, madam. Par. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, season'd are, To their right praise, and true perfection! Peace,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pàgines
...it, madam. For. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, season'd are, To their right praise, and true perfection ! Peace,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pàgines
...every idle vanity. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, season'd are To their right praise and true perfection : How vain... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pàgines
...it, madam. For. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, season'd are, To their right praise, and true perfection ! Peace,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pàgines
...every idle vanity. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, saason'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! How vain... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pàgines
...it, madam. Por. 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season, season'd are, To their right praise, and true perfection ! Peace,... | |
 | John Mills - 1845 - 276 pàgines
...blessing CHAPTER IV. " 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...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren." THERE are a great many sage aphorisms upon the subject of " extremes." Some philosophers... | |
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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. 
