 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1880 - 364 էջ
...ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad, to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would...touch but for necessity. How do the blackbird and thrasher with their me19 — HOKT. lodious voices bid welcome to the cheerful spring, and in their... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1880 - 364 էջ
...ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad, to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would...touch but for necessity. How do the blackbird and thrasher with their me19 — HORT. lodious voices bid welcome to the cheerful spring, and in their... | |
 | George Gulliver - 1881 - 178 էջ
...she ascends higher in the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad that she must descend to the dull earth, which she would not touch but for necessity." And this called to mind some verses on the song of this bird in the silver-tongued Sylvester's version... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 378 էջ
..."The fowls of the heaven which sing among the branches.'' How do the blackbird and thrassel [thrush], with their melodious voices, bid welcome to the cheerful...such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to ? .... But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 380 էջ
...'•''The foirh of the heaven which ainy among the branches." How do the blackbird and thrassel [thrush], with their melodious voices, bid welcome to the cheerful spring, and in their fixed mouths warble forth such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to? .... But the nightingale, another... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 էջ
...ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad, to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would...like in their particular seasons, as, namely, the laverock, the titlark, the little linnet, and the honest robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 էջ
...sings as she ascends higher into the air;" of the blackbird and throssel, who "in their fixed mouths warble forth such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to;" and, lastly, of the nightingale, who " breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental... | |
 | Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club - 1884 - 426 էջ
...Slack-bird and Thraisel, -with their melodious voices, hid welcome to the cheerful Spring, and in their fixt Months warble forth such ditties as no Art or Instrument...the like in their particular seasons, as namely the laverock, the Tit-lark, the little Linet, and the honest Robin, that loves mankind both alive and dead.... | |
 | 1891 - 478 էջ
...ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment grows then mute and sad, to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would...such ditties as no art or instrument can reach to I Nay, the smaller birds -also do the like in their particular seasons, as, namely, the laverock, the... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1892 - 300 էջ
...ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would not touch but for necessity.1 How do the blackbird and thrassel with their melodious voices bid welcome to the cheerful... | |
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Lark, when she means to rejoice, to cheer herself and those that hear her, she then quits the earth, and sings as she ascends higher into the air ; and, having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad to think she must descend to the dull... 
