| Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...sweet descants, " the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling " of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, " and say,...thou provided for the saints " in heaven, when thou affordest bad men iuch music upon " earth f— (Complete Angier, P. /. Ck. I.) And that between men... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 576 pages
...sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, " the doubling and redoubling, of the nightingale's " voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say,...thou provided for the saints " in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such " music upon earth !" Walton's Complete Angler/ p. 9. 13. He watereth the hills... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou afFordest bad men such music on earth !" Again :—" When I would beget content, and increase confidence... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affbrdest bad men such music on earth !" Again : — " When I would beget content, and increase confidence... | |
| 1838 - 504 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth!' " The localities frequented by the nightingale are woods having... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affbrdest bad men such music on earth !" Again : — " When I would beget content, and increase confidence... | |
| Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth! And this makes me the less to wonder at the many Aviaries in... | |
| 1823 - 450 pages
...the very labourers sleep securely, should hear, as I have heard, the clear air, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling, and...and say, " Lord ! what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affprdest bad men such music upon earth." It is generally believed... | |
| Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...thou provided for the saints in Heaven, when thou aftordest bad men such music on Earth !" He then returns to his hawks, which he says are usually distinguished... | |
| Charles Bradley (Vicar of Glasbury.) - 1823 - 370 pages
...the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling, of the nightingale's voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say,...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth !' — Walton's Complete Angler, p. 9. 13. ' He watereth the... | |
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