 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 responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed...  An Introduction to the Study of Aesthetics - Page 127by James Clement Moffat - 1856 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...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. The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...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. .=6$, GOLDSMITH'S POETICAL WORKS. The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...way; no 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,...; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, 115 The mingled notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 662 pages
...has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.... 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 softened from below; 60 The swain responsive... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...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 softened from below; 60 The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy... | |
 | Sean Dunne - Fiction - 1957 - 496 pages
...as one of the most fascinating and beautiful effusions of British genius'. Sweet was the sound . . . Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up...notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
...(75). By its form, apostrophe pretends to ignore the reader. In contrast, the verse paragraph beginning "Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, /Up yonder hill the village murmur rose" (113-14) drops apostrophe and personification ("Sweet" is not an epithet here), the lines sound less... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - Philosophy - 2003 - 462 pages
...of "the melodies of mom," in the Minstrel, f 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 swain responsive... | |
 | Margaret Greenwood, Mark Connolly - Travel - 2003 - 940 pages
...Anglo-Irish society of which he was a part: 1 y- Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close g- Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; > There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, 5 The mingling notes came softened from below. O •jj But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...the way; All, 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...notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er... | |
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