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The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters - Page 340
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...much is the beauty of this description increased by the fine circumstance with which it is closed ? " These all in soft confusion sought the 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...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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,...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...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch dog's voice, that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud...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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice 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...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice 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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ringj wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filPd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school : The watch dog's voice, that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud...These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And lill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid simg, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice 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...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...from school: 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...
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