| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...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...that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbl'd o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dogs' voice that... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. f Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ning's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,...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... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...to the last, His heav'n commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ning's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,...with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softcn'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung ; The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1807 - 320 pages
...and conveying notices of all the various business going on among the human and animal inhabitants ! The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober...their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the poo], The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering... | |
| 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
...world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village munner - softiMi'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...to the last, His heav'n commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ninp'* close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There,...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...world be past. Sweet was 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...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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...to the last, His beav'n commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ninp'i close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There,...with careless steps and slow. The mingling notes came sofien'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk -maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
| Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 442 pages
...description of evening, in the Deserted Village : Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Ur> yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, as I pass'd...with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below : The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
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