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Latest Literary Essays ; The Old English Dramatists - Page 88
by James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 461 pages
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2

Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...prose-writer. Who can adduce on the subject, a morsel of such impressive beauty as the following? " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...are not ceased, He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear ajrs, the sweet descants, the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...leverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that ]<)ves mankind both alive and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,,...sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...leverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead, But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,....sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at' midnight, when the very labourer...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...creatures,breathes such sweet loud music, out of her little int strumental, that it may make matikind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear as I have, very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...reader will be surprised, perhaps, when I name honest Isaac Walton. But let him read this and judge. " But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer deeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet il< scants I,...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer ileeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descantsi, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...leverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that; loves mankind bath alivaand dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures^...breathes such sweet loud music, out of. her little. in-t Strumehtal, that it may make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 14

England - 1823 - 782 pages
...Leverock, the Titlark, the little Lionet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. " But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...Leverock, the Titlark, the little Linnet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead. But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...laverock, the tit-lark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both living and dead. But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures,...instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear,...
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