 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 páginas
..."Nothing can be more beautiful than Dr. 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 as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swain... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 páginas
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...way ; And, all his prospects briglit'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! us munner rose ; There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softiMi'd from... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 380 páginas
..." the melodies of morn," in the Minstrel', or of the melodies of evening in the Deserted Village : Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The ""*'... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...the way, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose : There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...: The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below. The swain... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The... | |
 | 1850 - 938 páginas
...the passage. No one will object to read it again, though he has read it fifty or twice fifty times. " Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 páginas
...the way; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below: The swain... | |
 | 1818 - 400 páginas
...sequestered bower, And shrill lark carols clear from her aerial tow'r. BEATTIE, MELODIES of the EVENING. Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The... | |
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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... 
