 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 Seiten
...with a new sense, and the slightest sound attracts our attention. Shakspeare has marked even this " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." It is on the same principle that people dwelling in the vicinity of waterfalls do not appear to notice... | |
 | Henry Brown (of Newington Butts.) - 1870 - 322 Seiten
...from his honied verse One sable tear." — Chettle of Shakespeare, 1603. SONNET 102. Lines 7 to 12. " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." — Merchant of Venice. SONNET 103. Lime 9, 10. " Striving to better, oft we mar what's well." —... | |
 | Henry Brown (of Newington Butts.) - 1870 - 308 Seiten
...from his honied verse One sable tear."— Chettle of Shakespeare, 1603. SONNET 102. Lines 1 to 12. " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." — Merchant of Venice. SONNET 103. Lines 9, 10. " Striving to better, oft we mar what's well." —... | |
 | Henry Brown (of Newington Butts.) - 1870 - 310 Seiten
...from his honied verse One sable tear."—Chettle of Shakespeare, 1603. SONNET 102. Lines 7 to 12. " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither...cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren."—Merchant of Venice. SONNET 103. Linet 9, 10. " Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."—King... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 842 Seiten
...McthinkH, it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. l'nr. o. Per. Where should this music bel i' the air, a...the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me seaoon «ea»>n'd are To their right praise and true pe fection ! — Peace, hoa ! the moon sleeps... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - 1871 - 354 Seiten
...inquire the author's name. Portia evidently had no high opinion of the wren's song, when she said, — " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither...would be thought No better a musician than the wren." Merchant of Venice, Act v. Sc. 1 . Lady Macduff was reminded of the wren when bewailing the flight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 522 Seiten
...beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Ner. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. For. So doth the greater glory dim the less : A substitute...musician than the wren. How many things by season season' d are To their rig"ht praise and true perfection ! — Peace, ho ! the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...inland brook Into the main of waters. Music ! hark ! Ner. It is your music, madam, of the house. Par. Nothing is good, I see, without respect ; Methinks...than the wren. How many things by season season'd are \ t To their right praise, and true perfection \-+ ' Peace ! How the moon sleeps with Endymion, And... | |
 | 1876 - 564 Seiten
...: Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that 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 ! — Peace ! How the moon sleeps with Endymion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 1000 Seiten
...; Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day. Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam. Por. season 'd are To their right praise and true perfection 1 — Peacel How the moon sleeps with Endymion.... | |
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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. 
