Nightingales Quotes
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Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.99, Modern Library
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
Epictetus (1877). “Selections from Epictetus”, p.21
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”
Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.173, Del Rey
Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.286