 To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered...  Dwight's American Magazine - Page 64edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments diet meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. Fairy Queen, Book ii. Canto 12, Stanza 71. Dr. Warton says of these lines, that they... | |
 | Isaac Weld - Killarney, Lakes of - 1812 - 360 pages
...meet With the base murmure of the water's fall. The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now soil, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. 8 He who has never sailed along the shores of Glena by the light of the moon, nor... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the waters fall ; The waters fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. $ 116. Description of the Garden of Adonis. THERE is continual spring and harvest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall j The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos, and languid brilliancy... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. The joyous birds shrouded in cheerful shade, Their notes unto the voice attempered... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. GLAUCE AND BRITOMART EXPLORING THE CAVB OF MERLIN. ******** FULL many ways within... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 754 pages
...[meet The silver sounding instruments did With the base murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind lowe answering to all." Amongst his greatest faults may be reckoned the languid feebleness with which... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 728 pages
...silver sounding instruments did With the b.ise raurmure of the waiert fall •. The waters fall, wilh difference discreet. Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warhling wind lowe answering to all." Amongst his greatest faulli may be reckoned the languid feebleness... | |
 | Harold (fict.name.) - England - 1819 - 952 pages
...silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of tin- water's fall : The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now soft — now loud — unto the wind did call ; gentle, warbling wind, low answered to alJ." Conspicuous among the lovely group, which environed... | |
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.' Canto XII. ver. 70, 71. In this luxuriant scene reposes the fair enchantress, who... | |
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