VALENTINE'S DAY. I. HAIL Bishop Valentine, whose day this is ; All the air is thy diocese, And all the chirping choristers And other birds are thy parishioners ; Thou marriest every year The lyric lark, and the grave whispering dove, The sparrow that... The Antiquary - Page 43edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
| John Bell - 1799 - 402 pages
...other birds are thy partshioners : Thou marry'st every year The lyric lark and the grave n hispering dove ; The sparrow, that neglects his life for love, The household bird with the red < .n.xher; Thou mak'st the black-bird speed as soon As doth the goldfinch or the halcyon ; 10 The husband... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...Shaitfeare. Instead of a itumacltr, a girding of sackcloth. Isaiah, Thou marry'*' every year The lyrick lark and the grave whispering dove, The sparrow that neglects his life I'or love. The household bird with the red stomacher. Donne. STO'MACHFUL. adj. \stomaehosus, Lat. stomach... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...is thy diocese, And all the chirping choristers And other birds are thy parishioners: Thou marry'st every year The lyric lark, and the grave whispering...love; The household bird with the red stomacher; Thou roak'tit the blackbird speed as soon, As doth the goldfinch or the halcyon J The husband cock looks... | |
| Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...choristers • And other birds are thy parishioner*, " Thou marryest every yeare •' The Krique larke, and the grave whispering dove, " The (sparrow that...love, " The household bird, with the red stomacher." 1 VALEKTINC CAHEV, Matter of Christ's College, in Cambridge, and Dean of St. Paul's, is raid to have... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...all the chirping choristers And other birds are his parishioners ; He marries every year The lyrique lark, and the grave whispering dove; The sparrow,...for love ; The household bird with the red stomacher ; He makes the blackbird speed as soon As doth the goldfinch or the halcyon." Let us be off to the... | |
| 1824 - 624 pages
...parishioners ; He marries every year The lyrique lark, and the grave whispering dove ; The sparron , that neglects his life for love ; The household bird with the red stomacher ; He makes the blackbird speed as soon As doth the goldfinch or the halcyon." Let us be off to the... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 pages
...all the chirping choristers And other birds, are his parishioners. He marries every year The lyrique lark, and the grave whispering dove; The sparrow, that neglects his life to love ; The household bird with red stomacher; He makes the blackbird speed as soon As doth the goldfinch... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pages
...and put upon him by necessity of state. Bacon's Henry VII. Thou marry 'st етегу year The lyrick lark and the grave whispering dove, The sparrow that...for love, The household bird with the red stomacher. Donne. Jonathan loved David, and the people applauded him ; only Saul stomached him, and therefore... | |
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