 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
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...The silver sounding instruments did meet, With the base murmur of the water's fall ; Tha 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall, with difference discreet, JVow soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.33 MARLOWE, BORN, ACCORDING TO MALONE, ABOUT 1565, DIED, 1593. IP ever there was a... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 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." Sir Philip Sydney, the friend and patron of Spenser, was in the court of Queen Elizabeth... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...straightway. 4 might. DETRACTION. With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall, with differeuce discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. Detrattion. THE other nothing better was than shee ; Agreeing in bad will and cancred... | |
 | John Sullivan Dwight - Music - 1853 - 424 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 answer-ed to all.' " By degrees, insensibly, the so^ig drops into a more and more absorbed and melancholy... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the bass murmur 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 to all. SPENSEK.— [From "The Faerie Queen."] SHEPHERDS all, and maidens fair, Fold your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 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 gently warbling wind low answered to all." J Grots, statues, urns, and Jo — n's2 dog and bitch, 50... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's full; The water's foil with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentío warbling wind low answered to all. OLAUCT, AXD BEITOMART EXPLORING THE CAVE OP XEROX. FfLI.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1853 - 462 pages
...The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fa!!, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call j The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." B. II., c. XII., s. LXXI. But the reader can hardly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 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... | |
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