 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1807 - 316 pages
...half willing to be press'd, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. GOLDSMITH. • Village Sounds. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften 'd from below; The swain, responsive... | |
 | British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1899 - 756 pages
...thee, Culloden's drsad echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king." (e.) " Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose." (f.) "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure." RHETORIC. (For... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...way ; And, all his prospects briglit'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village munner rose ; There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softiMi'd from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1811 - 212 pages
...way; no And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heav'n commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, 115 The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...or of the melodies of evening in the Deserted Villae : \l • -| i J i; . - i i..i1\ *{**'. i , , ., Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The The swain responsive... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 384 pages
...the melodies of morn," in the Minstrel*, or of the melodies of evening in the Deserted Village : « Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The The swain responsive... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 444 pages
...was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder bill the village murmur rose. There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below : The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 442 pages
...the sound, when oft at evening's close Ur> yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below : The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1813 - 346 pages
...passage, which, though frequently quoted, is never quoted or read without the liveliest pleasure. 67 Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...There, as I passed, with careless steps and slow, The mingled notes came softened from below : The swain responsive, as the milk maid sung, The sober herd,... | |
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Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed... 
