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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. "
The Diorama of Life, Or, The Macrocosm and Microcosm Displayed ... - Page 241
by Andrew Wilkie - 1824 - 365 pages
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Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 474 pages
...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." It is on the same principle that people dwelling in the vicinity of waterfalls do not appear to notice...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...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." It is on the same principle that people dwelling in the vicinity of waterfalls do not appear to notice...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...Lu-k, When neither is attended ; and, I think. The nightingale, if she should sing by day. When every ncipal, and Id me go. Baa. I hare it ready for tbee ; ban it n. l'or. He How many tilings by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa...
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Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 88 pages
...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. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace ! how...
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 pages
...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. How many things by season season 'd are To their right praise and true perfection! — Peace ! How...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...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. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa !...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 254

Literature - 1907 - 848 pages
...Shakespeare, in The Merchant of Venice, has it:— The Nightingale if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling would be thought No better a musician than the wren. "Sweet bird, why shun the light T asks George Dyer. Again, the same poet writes:— Mourners there...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pages
...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. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa !...
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Western Barbary: Its Wild Tribes and Savage Animals

Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay - Africa, North - 1844 - 372 pages
...opposite tree. How truly has Portia said — " The nightingale, if she should sing by diy, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren." Here this bird of sorrow loses all her sentiment. The gardeners are now occupied in calling the gardens...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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. How many things by season, season'd are, To their right praise, and true perfection ! Peace, hoa! the...
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