 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock' d about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent,...heard. I wonder'd too. Amet. And so do I ; good, on ! . Meu. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'ry several... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. 1 wonder'd too. Amet. And so do 1 ; good, on ! Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...Proclaiming Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent,...skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ey'ry several strain The well shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not run division... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...harmony Proclaiming (as it seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ; and, for every several strain... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...seem'd) so bold a challenge To the clear quiristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock' d about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A Nightingale, Nature's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge; and, for every several strain... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 594 pages
...harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they heard. I wonder'd too. A met. And so do I ; good, on ! Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skilled musician, undertakes The... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...him, all stood sileut, Wond'rinp at what they heard. I wonder'd too. ..I'ntt. And so do I ; good, on I Men. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge, and for ev'ry several strain The well-shap'd youth could touch, she sung her down ; He could not run division... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1824 - 312 pages
...harmony Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That as they flock'd about him, all stood silent, Wond'ring at what they beard. I wonder'd too, A nightingale, N ill urn's best-skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge ;... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 712 pages
...harmony, Proclaiming, as it seem'd, so bold a challenge To the clear choristers of the woods, the birds, That, as they flock'd about him, all stood silent,...Amet. And so do I; good! on — Men. A nightingale, * Vide (Ford says) Fami. Stradam, lib. ii. Prolus. G. 4cad. 2. Imitut. Claudian. This story, as Mr.... | |
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He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to... 
