 | 1857 - 584 pages
...syllable in the metrical section, as in the following lines from the " Merchant of Venice :" — " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." In these blank trimeters, properly read, there is a major and a minor accent in even' section. Shakespeare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 618 pages
...itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. — Music ! hark ! Ner. It is your music, madam, of the house. Por. Nothing is good, I see,...day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Ethics - 1857 - 474 pages
...Shakspeare has marked even this. " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is aiiended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." It is on the jgame principle that people dwelling m the vicinity of waterfalls do not appear to notice... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...respect : Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows the virtue on it, madam. Par. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! THE EXILED DCKE'S PHILOSOPHY. As you like... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson, Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1858 - 314 pages
...easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...musician than the wren. How many things by season, seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! How far that little candle throws his beams... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 832 pages
...Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. NEH. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Ров. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...When every goose is cackling, would be thought No bcttc^ a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 672 pages
...It is your music, madam, of the house. For. Nothing is good , I see , without respect. 11 Mcthinks, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows...as sweetly as the lark, "When neither is attended; 18 and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Music ! hark ! Ner. It is your music, madam, of the house. Por. Nothing is good, I see,...musician than the wren. How many things by season scason'd are To their right praise and true perfection !— Peace ! How the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 1120 pages
...Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Music ! hark ! Ner. It is your music, rk that tirra-lirra chants. With hciiîh 1 with hey...and the jay Are summer songs for me and my aunts, eeason'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace! How tiie moon sleeps with Kndymion,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...view, is more agreeable than when seen in a group with the surrounding objects : The crow doth fine as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ;...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than tlio wren. — Merclumtof Vtnict. 85. In matters of slight importance, attention is mostly directed... | |
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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. 
