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
| Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1915 - 550 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 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 j The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.' The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1930 - 446 pages
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