 To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered...  Dwight's American Magazine - Page 64edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos, and languid brilliancy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wmd low answered to all." The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos, and languid... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...' With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall, with difference discreet, JVow sofi, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. 3s 3 q " The gentle warbling wind," &c. This exquisite stanza is a specimen of perfect... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fati ; The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now sofi, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. 3 " s?" The gentle warbling wind," &c. This exquisite stanza is a specimen of perfect... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the. base murmur of the water's fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. It is worthy of notice that in these charming stanza the most perfect music is produced... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...silver-sounding instruments did meet, With the base murmure of the water's fall ; The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." These images, one would have thought, were peculiarly calculated to have struclt... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...th' instruments divine respondence meet, With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. SPENSER. OTHERS ADMIRE IN THEE A POET'S FIRE. OTHERS admire in thee a poet's fire,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall : The water's fall es from action. The reason hereof is an admirable facility which music hath to express and represen answered to all. The while, some one did chaunt this lovely lay ; ' Ah see, whoso fair thing thou dost... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall ) answered to all. LXXIl. There, whence that musick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire Witch herselfe... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet, With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. The while, some one did chant this lovely lay ; Ah see, whoso fair thing thou dost... | |
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