 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
 | Frank Ives Scudamore - Animals, Mythical - 1861 - 80 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." And unless those who have written on the natural history of Fairy Land have erred... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...silver hnnd With her fair pencil strikes the darkness out, And paints the glorious face of day. Ha fard. From amber shrouds I see the morning rise, Her rosy...to paint the skies ; And now the city emmets leave the hive, And rousing hinds to cheerful labour drive. High cliffs and rocks aro pleasing objects now,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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. ON HEAVENLY LOVE. LOVE, lift me up upon thy golden wings From this base world unto... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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." Then from the lips of an unseen singer there issues an enthralling Epicurean strain... | |
 | 1863 - 836 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." Here is a combination of melodies, each part in itself is melodious, and the harmony... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 272 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 remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos, and languid brilliancy... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1915 - 556 pages
...meet: 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. We have here the envelope figure of parallelism: what the first line advances is by... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1915 - 312 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. Less sonorous chords vibrate in these lines — And all the while sweet Musicke did... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1922 - 388 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: 72 There, whence that Musick seemed heard to bee, 640 Was the faire Witch her selfe now solacing, With... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 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 remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous • pathos, and languid brilliancy... | |
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