 ... responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd 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 bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that...  Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste - Page 40by Archibald Alison - 1821 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...children just let loose from school, The watch-dogs' voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh, that spoke the vacant mind : " Yet how much...shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made." We get another example from Mr. Whateley's description of the Tinian Lawn at Hagley. "All here is of... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...The watch dog's voice, that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale: . No busy steps the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...that bay 'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all, in sweet confusion, sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale ; No busy steps the... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind j These nil in sweet Johnson [etc.] But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful munners fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...that bay 'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...The watch dog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke if e vacant mind; These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale : No busy steps the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1812 - 442 pages
...children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayM the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh, that spoke the vacant mind. Yet how much is...the " Seasons," by the addition of one of the most picturepque circumstances that was ever imagined by a poet: Lead me to the mountain brow, Where sits... | |
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