 O clear up, clear up!" interspersed with the finest trills and the most delicate preludes. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain, like the tanager's or the grosbeak's; suggests no passion or emotion, — nothing personal, — but seems to be the voice of...  The North American Review - Page 1811921Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...clear away, clear away ! O clear up, clear up ! " interspersed with the finest trills and the most delicate preludes. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain,...sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep, solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1867 - 844 pages
...Tanager's or the Grosbeak's; suggests * no passion or emotion, — nothing personal, — but eecms to be the voice of that calm, sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I ascended... | |
 | John Burroughs - Birds - 1871 - 246 pages
...clear away, clear away ! 0 clear up, clear up ! " interspersed with the finest trills and the most delicate preludes. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain,...sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I ascended... | |
 | Lemurs - 1883 - 456 pages
...! 0 clear up, clear up ! " interspersed with the finest trills and the most delicate preludes. 11. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain, like the tanager's...sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep, solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I... | |
 | John Burroughs - Birds - 1876 - 276 pages
...most delicate preludes. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain, like the tanager's or the grossbeak's ; suggests no passion or emotion, — nothing personal,...sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I ascended... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 322 pages
...most delicate preludes. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain, like the tanager's or the grossbeak's ; suggests no passion or emotion, — nothing personal,...sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realises a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I ascended... | |
 | John Burroughs - Birds - 1884 - 326 pages
...most delicate preludes. It is not a proud, gorgeous strain, like the tanager's or the grossbeak's ; suggests no passion or emotion, — nothing personal,...sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realises a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I ascended... | |
 | Animals - 1885 - 456 pages
...strain, like the tanager's or the grosbeak's ; suggests no passion or emotion—nothing personal—but seems to be the voice of that calm, sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep, solemn joy that only the finest souls may know. A few nights ago I... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 686 pages
...strain, like the tanager's or the grossbeak's ; suggests no passion or emotion—nothing personal—but seems to be the voice of that calm, sweet solemnity one attains ^o in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep, solemn joy that only the finest souls may know.... | |
 | Simeon Pease Cheney - Birdsongs - 1892 - 292 pages
...comes near to that of some rare stringed instrument." But finer than all, the hermit's song is to him " the voice of that calm, sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It realizes a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the finest souls may know." (In his Wake-robin,... | |
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