...; While mnny a pastime circled in the shade, The youn;: contending as the old survey'd. Sweet w.is 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 minghng notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive...

...adjective pronoun, when it follows a series, or a succession of similar words or clauses. EXAMPLES. 328. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, as [ passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes come softened from below; The swain responsive...

...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...

...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...

...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...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...

...(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...

...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...

...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...

...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...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...