The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled... The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 223edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1857 - 206 pages
...notes came softened from below The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung The sober herd that lowed to meet their young The noisy geese that gabbled o'er...These all in sweet confusion sought the shade And filled each pause the nightingale had made" Florid Style. " His charmed numbers flow on like the free... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I pass'd, with careless steps arid slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swain...let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind — These all in sweet confusion... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 560 pages
...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 swain...pool, The playful children just let loose from school j The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind,... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled...These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1858 - 204 pages
...notes came softened from below The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung The sober herd that lowed to meet their young The noisy geese that gabbled o'er...These all in sweet confusion sought the shade And filled each pause the nightingale had made" Florid Style. " His charmed numbers flow on like the free... | |
| Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow. The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain...let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring wind. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1859 - 200 pages
...village murmur rose. There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softeu'd from below ; .. • The swain responsive as the milk-maid...let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud lau^-h that spoke the vacant mind — These all in sweet confusion... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1860 - 422 pages
...notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled...These all in sweet confusion sought the shade. And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Eut now the sounds of population fail. No cheerful murmurs... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled...These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Goldsmith. Virtue, I need not tell, when proved and full... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...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 swain...let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind, — These all in sweet confusion... | |
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