 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pagina’s
...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...that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbl'd o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dogs' voice that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pagina’s
...the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. f Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ning's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,...with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften 'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagina’s
...to the last, His heav'n 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,...with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softcn'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung ; The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 320 pagina’s
...and conveying notices of all the various business going on among the human and animal inhabitants ! The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober...their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the poo], The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pagina’s
...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 slow, The mingling notes came...from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid simg, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village munner - softiMi'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pagina’s
...to the last, His heav'n commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ninp'* close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There,...came soften'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk -maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pagina’s
...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 careless steps and...from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid snng* . . The sober herd that low'd to meet their yonng, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pagina’s
...to the last, His beav'n commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at ev'ninp'i close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There,...with careless steps and slow. The mingling notes came sofien'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk -maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1812 - 442 pagina’s
...description of evening, in the Deserted Village : Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Ur> yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, as I pass'd...with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below : The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet... | |
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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 voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind... 
