 | Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 442 pages
...description of evening, in the Deserted Village : Sweet was 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... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 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 ""*' JBook I.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 444 pages
...evening, in the Deserted Village : Sweet 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...with unperceiv'd decay. While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ning'* close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I past with careless steps and... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...; Sinks to the grave with unperceived demy, While resignation gently slopes the way ; 1 Isaiah xlL 19. And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." The main design and purpose of Divine prophecy is not to give vain inquirers a foreknowledge of what... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." We have mentioned that in autumn the ivy blossoms. The bright yellowish-green flowers, emblems of truth... | |
 | England - 1850 - 938 pages
...the passage. No one will object to read it again, though he has read it fifty or twice fifty times. " 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 soften'd from below : The swam responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...virtue's friend— Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His...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... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...sequestered bower, And shrill lark carols clear from her aerial tow'r. BEATTIE, MELODIES of the EVENING. Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close,...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; • .• . And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when, oft at ev'ning's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I past with careless steps and... | |
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The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school... 
