 Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice ; To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly So many voluntaries, and so quick...  The Quarterly Review - Page 463edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had1 never taught cliffs,11 moods, or notea Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied...voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity in cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. 5.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger, that a bird, Whom art had never taught clifls," moods, or notes Should vie with him for mastery, whose...voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity in cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. 5.... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose...diff'ring method > Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordained to be Music's first martyr) strove to imitate These several sounds : which when... | |
 | Great Britain - 1855 - 492 pages
...spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; tha,ta bird, Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery,...curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordain'd to be These several sounds... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pages
...a bird, " whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes," should vie with him for mastery. So, To end the controversy, in a rapture, Upon his instrument,...curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordained to be Music's first martyr)... | |
 | 1860 - 520 pages
...should vie with him for mastery. So, To end the controversy, in a rapture, Upon his instrument, lie plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick....curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordained to be Music's first martyr)... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1862 - 438 pages
...spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cleffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery,...plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, When we open the pages of Shirley, again, a man of very fine poetic fancy, with an excellent turn for... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery,...curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordain'd to be Music's first martyr)... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to. To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument...curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird, ordain'd to be Music's first martyr,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery,...diff'ring method Meeting in one full centre of delight. The bird (ordained to be Music's first martyr) strove to imitate These several sounds : which when... | |
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