As I stole nearer, Invited by the melody, I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety and harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 381edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock' d about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...saw This youth, this fuir-l'ac'd youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety and harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To...heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I ; good, on ! . Meu. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'ry several... | |
| John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...saw This youth, this fair-t'ac'd youth, upon his lute, With strains ot strange variety and harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To...him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. 1 wonder'd too. Amet. And so do 1 ; good, on ! Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician,... | |
| Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...strange variety and harmony Proclaiming (as it seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock'd about...silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain... | |
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock' d about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge; and, for every several strain... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1820 - 594 pages
...saw This youth, this fair-fac'd youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety and harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To...silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A met. And so do I ; good, on ! Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled musician, undertakes The... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety snd harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold tt challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the...birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood sileut, Wond'rinp at what they heard. I wonder'd too. ..I'ntt. And so do I ; good, on I Men. A nightingale,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1824 - 312 pages
...I saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute With strains of strange variety and harmony Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To...about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they beard. I wonder'd too, A nightingale, N ill urn's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ;... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - English essays - 1825 - 312 pages
...I saw This youth, this fair-faced yonth, upon his luta With strains of strange variety and harmony Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To...That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wondering at what they heard. I wonder'd too, A nightingale. Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes... | |
| John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 688 pages
...saw This youth, this fair-faced youth, upon his lute, With strains of strange variety and harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To...skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own; He could not run division... | |
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