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" Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie... "
Bacon and Shakspere: Proof that William Shakspere Could Not Write. The ... - Page 24
by William Henry Burr - 1886 - 48 pages
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addnat to the Nightingale.] of wise saws and modem instances ; And so he plays...part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and alipper Beaut* did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did groxv, anil plants did spring ; Everything di<l banish...
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The River Dove: With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling

John Lavicount Anderdon - Fishing - 1847 - 316 pages
...fweet fonnet from the Paffionate Pilgrim, compofed by the greateft bard of the laft or any other age. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleafant made, Which a grove of myrtles made ; Lambs did leap, and birds did fing ; Trees did grow,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...less than stabbing; Yet stab at thee who will, No «tab the soul can kill. [Addmt to the Nightingale,] ne in a country.' The punning allusion to Shakspcare...believed to be one of Shakspeare's late dramas, no Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn ; And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 482 pages
...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thce and be thy love.1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring...
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Notes and Queries

Questions and answers - 1921 - 1154 pages
...singeth with her breast against a thorn," he was, of course borrowing from Richard Barnefield's ' Ode ': Everything did banish moan Save the nightingale alone. .She, poor bird, as all forlorn Lean'd her breast against a thorn, And there sang the dolefullest ditty, That to hear it was great...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1892 - 678 pages
...printed in Malone's ' Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare.' The sonnet commences with the words — As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May ; and, in allusion to it, in his preliminary remarks on the 'Passionate Pilgrim,' Malone says that...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...BARNFIELD. Author of several poetical volumes, published between 1594 and 1598. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast up-^ill a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was a pity....
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...rare excellence, that it was, for a long time, ascribed to Shakspeare. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan, Save the Nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...rare excellence, that it was, for a long time, ascribed to Shakspeare. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring; Every thing did banish moan, Save the Nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pages
...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. 1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove 2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring: Every...
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