 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 pages
...Walton, always so fresh and quaint in utterance, echoes the general chorus of praise of the strains. " The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight,... | |
 | John Hogg (publisher.) - Animals - 1878 - 536 pages
..." The nightingale, another of the airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud musio out of her bttle instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to...think miracles are not ceased. He that, at midnight, should hear, as I have very often, the clear > aira, the sweet descants, Ihe natural rising and fulling,... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...quarters of an ounce. Its colors are dark-brown above and grayish-white below. 6. Izaak Walton says : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of the little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think that miracles are not ceased. He that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...the smaller birds also do the like in their particular seasons, as, namely, the laverock (skylark), the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin,...another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet lond music out of her little instrumental throat that it might make mankind to think miracles are not... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1879 - 344 pages
...eulogy is more flattering : — The Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps so securely, should... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1880 - 364 pages
...smaller birds also do the like in their particular seasons, as namely, the leverock, the titlark, the linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both...little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1880 - 366 pages
...smaller birds also do the like in their particular seasons, as namely, the leverock, the titlark, the linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both...little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very laborer sleeps securely, should hear,... | |
 | William Jones - Superstition - 1880 - 634 pages
...cannot forbear quoting the well-known exquisite words in Walton's " Angler " on the nighiingale ; who " breathes such sweet, loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it tiiigiil make mankind to think miracus are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1882 - 378 pages
...spring, and in their fixed months warble forth such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to ? .... But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...music out of her little instrumental throat, that it makes mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps... | |
 | John George Wood - Animals - 1882 - 264 pages
...greatly to the effect of the scene. Well may Isaak Walton say in his delightfully quaint language : " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet, loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight,... | |
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But the nightingale,' another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. 
