...hearing it done. It was a universal noise of Song ; as if the Spring of Manhood had arrived, andwarblings from every spray, not indeed without infinite twitterings...their gladness, had no music, were bidding it welcome. This was the Swabian Era; justly reckoned not only superior to all preceding eras, but properly the...

...hearing it done It was a universal noise of Song; as if the Spring of Manhood had arrived, and warbling* from every spray, not indeed without infinite twitterings...their gladness had no music, were bidding it welcome. This was the Swabian Era- justly reckoned no' only superior to all preceding eras, but properly the...

...hearing it done. It was a universal noise of Song ; as if the Spring of Manhood had arrived, andwarblings from every spray, not indeed without infinite twitterings...their gladness, had no music, were bidding it welcome. This was the Swatrian Era; justly reckoned not only superior to all preceding eras, but pro perly the...

...grandeur of German poetic thought and legendary lore. Carlyle speaks thus of this period : " Then, truly, was the time of singing come; for princes and prelates,...had no music, — were bidding it welcome." And yet this blossoming spring-time of literature, when, as Tieck tells us, believers sang of faith, lovers...

...universal noise of song, as if the Spring of mankind had arrived, and warblings from every sprig — not, indeed, without infinite twitterings also, which,...gladness, had no music — were bidding it welcome. This was the Swabian era, justly reckoned, not only superior to all preceding eras, but properly the...

...bright influences; and, suddenly, as at sunrise, the whole earth had grown vocal and musical. Then truly was the time of singing come; for princes and prelates,...gladness, had no music, were bidding it welcome." And while the voices of nature and of human love were finding beautiful expression in thousands of songs,...