 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound, when oil, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heav'n commences ere the world be past ! 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. 15 Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, 20 The sober herd... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. 15 Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evoning'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, 20 The sober herd... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...the way ; 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, Up...There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...the passage. No one will object to read it again, though he has read it fifty or twice fifty times. " Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close,...yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I passed wilh careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...way ; 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,...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...adjective pronoun, when it follows a series, or a succession of similar words or clauses. EXAMPLES. 828. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, a£ I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes come softened from below ; The swain... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...read it fifty or twice fifty times. " Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder bill the village murmur rose ; There as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came sofien'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...read it fifty or twice fifty times. " Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder bill the village murmur rose ; There as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften M from below : The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd... | |
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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... 
