 All the sounds that nature utters are delightful, — at least in this country. I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save...  Life and works of William Cowper - Seite 156von William Cowper - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 Seiten
...know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying ofan ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me,...not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody; but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
 | G. Clifford Dent - 1914 - 312 Seiten
...I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1915 - 338 Seiten
...know no beast in England whose voice I do not account as musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard,... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1915 - 794 Seiten
...but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not count musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody ; but a goose upon a common , or in a... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1918 - 286 Seiten
...defenders escaped into the castle — the shrieks and cries which you hear tell the fate of the others. 4. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without...not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody ; but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard,... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1920 - 256 Seiten
...I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1922 - 332 Seiten
...I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard,... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 Seiten
...I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying sh them here? I would not trust my heart — I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody; but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 Seiten
...I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1920 - 806 Seiten
...I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please...not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard,... | |
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