 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. How many things by season seasoned are To...  Guild Court: A London Story - Side 91av George MacDonald - 1881 - 331 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 406 sider
...and the time that any good thing can be really or fully enjoyed. As she immediately subjoins:— " How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection !" So afterwards Nerissa to Gratiano,—" You should have been respective, and have kept it" (the ring),—that... | |
 | 1865 - 992 sider
...appearance. Books are no exception to the general law expressed by the sagacious dramatist, when he said, " How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection." Dr. Blakeney is well known among the ranks of the Church Militaut as a Protestant champion. At any... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sider
...found it answer — so may you. Byron, D. J- n. !»• SEASONS — see Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! Sh. M. of Ven- v. 1. ST5ASOWS — enr.lmued. Perceivest thou not the process of the year. How the... | |
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...nor do they bear in mind the words of the immortal bard, who furnishes a motto to this article : " How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection." In bygone days, our ancestors had little repose from the sports of the field ; for we find that the... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 sider
...everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the sun,—for as Shakspeare words it, " How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection !"—be sure that the Wise King includes laughter and weeping in the list. " A time to weep, and a... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 sider
...eveiything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the sun,—for as Shakspeare words it, " How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection !"—be sure that the Wise King includes laughter and weeping in the list. " A time to weep, and a... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 358 sider
...Shakespeare may not be quoted in the same paragraph with Solomon, and even in the sentence next after him — How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! Second childhood is so out of season, that the very name begets at once a kind of shocked compassion.... | |
 | 1876 - 564 sider
...it, madam. Par. 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...seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! — Peace ! How the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awaked ! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. The... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 sider
...time." Everything. A comprehensiveness exceeding that of the moonlight meditation in Shakspeare, — " How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection." Les belles choses, says La Bruyere, le sout moins hors de leur place : les bienstances mettent la perfection.... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 sider
...then seemed nothing but bustle." And in the same spirit Portia moralises : — The nightingale, if sbe should sing by day, When every goose is cackling,...seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection ! Nor will Coleridge allow the song of the Nightingale to be always plaintive, — " most musical,... | |
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