 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.  the cultivator - Page 158by luther tucker and son - 1864Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...VI. Act ill. Scene 1. A TIME FOB ALL THINGS. Portia. . . . 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. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! Merchant... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...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." It is on the same principle that people dwelling in the vicinity of waterfalls do not appear... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...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. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...sing as sweetly as the Lu-k, When neither is attended ; and, I think. The nightingale, if she should lure. My. Give me my principal, and Id me go. Baa. I hare it ready for tbee ; ban it n the wren. How many tilings by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 pages
...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. How many things by season season 'd are To their right praise and true perfection! — Peace... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...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. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 88 pages
...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. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pages
...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. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace,... | |
 | Literature - 1907 - 848 pages
...in the night. Thus Shakespeare, in The Merchant of Venice, has it:— The Nightingale if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling would be thought No better a musician than the wren. "Sweet bird, why shun the light T asks George Dyer. Again, the same poet writes:— Mourners... | |
 | Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay - Africa, North - 1844 - 372 pages
...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... | |
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