| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of ncighb'ring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft...silent course. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, Bnt animated natnre sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy the hnman ear. Ten thonsand warblers eheer... | |
| William Cowper - 1881 - 562 pages
...softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rUls that slip Through the cleft rock, and, chiming as thev fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length...sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy the human ear. Ten thousand warblers cheer the (lay, and one The livelong night... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...ouce. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighboring walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling...from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tie now the u livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course. Naturo inanimate employs sweet sounds,... | |
| William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1883 - 294 pages
...once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft...sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy the human ear. Ten thousand warblers cheer the day, and one The livelong night :... | |
| Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 pages
...Drydcn: Epistles. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still To soothe and satisfy the human ear. Ten thousand warblers cheer the day, and one The livelong night : not these alone whose notes Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that... | |
| 1883 - 528 pages
...distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighboring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the clefi rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length * firiHare tniw, the church tower of Clifton R^ynes, • mile east of OIney: the " tall spire " following... | |
| Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884 - 234 pages
...the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip 40 Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon...silent course. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, 45 But animated Nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy the human ear. Ten thousand warblers cheer... | |
| William Cowper - 1885 - 352 pages
...once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighb'ring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft...loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted glass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course. Nature inanimate employs... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighboring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they tafi Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, th;it with a livelier green Betrays... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1888 - 316 pages
...2. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighboring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft...green, Betrays the secret of their silent course. 3. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated Nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy... | |
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