 | William Howitt - Durham (England) - 1840 - 560 pages
...sentiment than that which he penned down when he heard the nightingales singing, as he sate angling — " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in Heaven, when thou aifordest bad men such music on Earth!" — Complete Angler, p. 10, Major's edition. VISIT TO WINCHESTER.... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - Europe - 1841 - 330 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 T " Of these clear Hampshire streams, Howitt says — " The water... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 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, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants B 3 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... | |
 | 1842 - 740 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...thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth !' ' The habits of the nightingale are thus described bv Mr.... | |
 | 1842 - 796 pages
...very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I hare Tory often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...lifted above earth and say, ' Lord, what music hast thon provided for the saints in heaven, when thou aft'ordest bad men guch music on earth I' " Of a... | |
 | Birds - 1842 - 172 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!" With the nightingale, favourite as it is in many climes,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1842 - 782 pages
...securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear aira, the sweet descants, the natural rising und falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice,...lifted above earth, and say, ' Lord, what music hast thon provided for the saints in heaven, when thou aiFordest bad men such music on earth !' " The habits... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...ceased. He that, at midnight, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling...might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord! what musick hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such musick on earth.... | |
 | Martingale - Country life - 1843 - 314 pages
...sweet descants, the natural risings and fallings, 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!'" In the course of a short time, he left that part of the... | |
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Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth... 
