 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...  Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction - Page 60by Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1893Full view - About this book
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...beautiful than Dr. Goldsmith's description 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 pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swain responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd ! 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... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...prospects brightening 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 murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...prospects brightening 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 murmur rose : There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove. 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... | |
 | England - 1850 - 938 pages
...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...with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swam responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove. Sweet was the sound, wheu 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... | |
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