| 1915 - 864 psl.
...nest (and what he has to say about birds' nests might fill a chapter) or of passion that lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale; of the linnet's bosom that blushes at the gaze of Spring, or of the ptarmigan whitening ere his hour... | |
| 1864 - 576 psl.
...The language is, in some parts, simply unintelligible ; I mean in such gems as the following : " As the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. " Now the " music of the spheres " we have heard of as a rather fashionable aerial concert, but we... | |
| 1864 - 808 psl.
...the romantic tales with which the boy amused his playmate "A passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." But we do not think such an equivocal expression as the " music of the moon," so inevitably suggesting... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 244 psl.
...Cr own'd after trial ; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. And thus together, save for college-times Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair As ever painter painted,... | |
| 1864 - 560 psl.
...Orown'd after trial ; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." This, of course, ends in the old, old story. Bat when the said story becomes legible to the stupid... | |
| 1864 - 196 psl.
...The following passage is, perhaps, the gem of the book. Speaking of love, it says it "Lay hidden, as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." The following description of an Oriental dagger is, also, very original and graceful : "A dagger,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 200 psl.
...Crown'd after trial ; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. And thus together, save for college-times Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair As ever painter painted,... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 psl.
...great thought-tree, which has now struck so deep into English life, softly overshadowing it all. As the " music of the moon sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale," so we have the whole Carlyle reflected there only as through a cracked mirror (for are not all party... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 psl.
...great thought-tree, which has now struck so deep into English life, softly overshadowing it all. As the " music of the moon sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale," so we have the whole Carlyle reflected there only as through a cracked mirror (for are not all party... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 psl.
...Crown'd after trial ; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. And thus together, save for college-times Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair As ever painter painted,... | |
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