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" The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind... "
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ... - Page 42
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 148 pages
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

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...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

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...
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Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry: By J. Aikin

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...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

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...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

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...
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Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface

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....
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

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...
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1

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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