 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
..."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 responsive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects bright'uing to the last, His heaven 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, as I past with careless steps and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slepes the way ; And, all his prospects briglit'ning munner rose ; There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softiMi'd from... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...with unperceiv'd decay, 'While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'oing to the last, His heaven 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, as I past with careless steps and... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven 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, as I past with careless steps and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...with nnperc«iv'd decay, "While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the 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... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
..." 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,...The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The ""*' JBook I. Stanzas 40, 41. The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...with unperceiv'd decay. While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ning'* close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I past with careless steps and... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His...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 responsive... | |
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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... 
