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 milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed... A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank]. - Page 138by James Flamank - 1833Full view - About this book
| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
..."Nothing can be more 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
...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... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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 slow, The mingling notes came...from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid simg, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The... | |
| 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! us munner rose ; There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softiMi'd from... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...the sonnd, when oft, at cv'niug's close , Up yonder hill the village mnrmnr rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came...from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid snng* . . The sober herd that low'd to meet their yonng, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool.... | |
| 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.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...the sound, when oft, at ev'ning'a 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 responsive as the milk maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past ! 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... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...the way, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! 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... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...: The bashful 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... | |
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