 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. NOTHING GOOD OUT OF SEASON. The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...are To their right praise, and true perfection!— Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd! MOONLIGHT NIGHT. This night, methinks,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. NIGHTINGALE. The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! NOVELTY. New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd.... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 704 pages
...then produced a madrigal or a song, were much more regarded than MiJton." " Tlie nightingale, if he should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren."t — SHAKSPKARE. 04. Nov. 1674. See the two preceding reigns; and the division of the HISTORIANS... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...by .Ли-, Silence bestows that virtue on it,madam. [lark, Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose ie cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. SHAKSPEARE. How many things by season... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...in this case, goes still further : he says, The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When either is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought Mo better a musician than the wren. That beautiful little... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 446 pages
...then produced a madrigal or a song, were much more regarded than Milton.* " The nightingale, if he should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better n musician than the wren."t — SBAKSPXARE. Ob. Nov. 1674. See the two preceding reigns; and the division... | |
 | Andrew Wilkie - Anecdotes - 1824 - 348 pages
...sings in the night ; hence Shakespeare says, " The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When erery goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren." But independently of this adventitious recommendation, the nightingale may, on other grounds, boldly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by nay. Jfer. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Par. e destroy'd. Alu, I look'd, when some of yon should...leave to my unwilling tongae, Against my will, to d bt- thought No better u musician than the wren. ' How many things by season season 'd are To their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...it, madam. for. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the When neither is attended; and, I think, [lark The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every...musician than the wren. How many things by season leason'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 472 pages
...respect"; Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...are To their right praise, and true perfection!— Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd! [Musick ceases. Lor. That is the... | |
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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. 
