 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 66edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1855
...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 gentle, warbling wind low answering to all." They spoke of Milton too, and of the sinless garden where Eve " Wove Of choicest flowers a garland... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Flower gardening - 1855 - 232 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. The Faerie Queene, Boak 11. Canto XII. Which is literally from Tasso, C. xvi 9. "... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1855
...did meet With the base raurmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall, with difference discreet, 5^ Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. 3 » There, whence that musick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire Witch herselfe now... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1855
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmurs 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."t Our critic observes that Dr. Warton says of these lines,... | |
 | 1856
...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. Young. Q SACRED Solitude ! divine Retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 549 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. There, whence that mosick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire witch herselfe now solacing... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 384 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 MISERY OF A COURTIER'S LIFE. Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859
...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 losv answered to all. LXXII. There, whence that music seemed heard to be, Was the fair witch herself... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1859
...did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall, with difference discreet, JVbw soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." *> " The gentle warbling wind," &c. This exquisite stanza is a specimen of perfect... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 472 pages
...silver-sounding instruments did meet With the bass murmur of the waters' fall ; The waters fall with diiference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind, low answered to all. SPENSEB.— [From "The Faerie Queen."] f astal SHEPHERDS all, and maidens fair, Fold... | |
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