| England - 1823 - 772 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...her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say ; bord, what music hast i In m provided for the saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such... | |
| Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...when the labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have heard, the clear air, the sweet descant, the rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above the earth, and say,' Lord! what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest... | |
| Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 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... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...the 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." The Hunter follows, with appropriate praise of his favourite... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...very laborer 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 !" Vermin, such as " wolves, bears, serpents, are to be extirpated... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her1 voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say,...hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when them afrbrdest bad men such music on earth'!" Vermin, such as " wolves, bears, serpents, are to be... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1826 - 146 pages
...(he 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 afibrdest bad men such music upon earth ?" — Complete Angler. 1676, Part 1. p, II. it should be recollected,... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pages
...labourer sleeps soundly, should hear, as I have often heard, the clear air«, and the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in Heaven, when thou affnrdest bad meo each music on earth ? — Isaac Walton." Definition... | |
| 1831 - 616 pages
...labourer sleeps soundly, should hear, as I have often heard, the clear airs, and the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in Heaven, when thou afforde&t bad men such music on earth ?~haac Walton." Definition of... | |
| Mary Roberts - Gloucestershire (England) - 1831 - 388 pages
...rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of the nightingale's voice, may well be lifted above the earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music upon earth ?" The common cuckoo (cuculus canorus) which announces with... | |
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