 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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...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 responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...wound in the conflict ; the only method to come off victorious is by running away.' The Bee, p. 56. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His...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 responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His...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 responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...friend; Sink« to the grave with unperccived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; Ami, (D5 05 N *& 9l& us I puss'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...flashes free, While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea. Village Sounds at Evening. SWEET was the s'ound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as 1 passed, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below : The swain responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way And all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past !' The description of the parish priest (probably intended for a character of his brother Henry) would... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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...There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingled notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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...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 responsive... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. 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... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...lightning flashes free, While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea Village Soimds at 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... | |
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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... 
