To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered... Complete Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 152by Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales - 1869 - 736 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1788 - 550 pages
...Birdes, voices, instruments, winder, waters, all agree. LXXI. The ioyous birdes, shrouded inchearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet...call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. LXX. There, whence that musick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire witch herselfe now solacing With... | |
| 1792 - 774 pages
...meet With the bafe murmure of the waters fall ; The wateri fall with difference difcrcet, Now ioft, now loud unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to alL UBI. Many faire ladies and hfHvious boye«, That ever mi« their fong with light licamoc toyes. LXXIII.... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...meet ; The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet. Now soft, now loud...call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.* These images, one would have thought, were! peculiarly calculated to have struck the fancy of our young... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 546 pages
...To tir instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the hase murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with...call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. I LXXI. There, whence mat musick seemed heard to hee, Was the faire witch he?selfe now solacing With... | |
| Isaac Weld - Killarney (Kerry, Ireland) - 1807 - 286 pages
...described ; The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the water's fall. The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud,...call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. He who has never sailed along the shores of Glena by the light of the moon, nor ever listened to the... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver-sounding My liefest lord she thus beguiled had; For he was flesh : (nil flesh doth frayltie There, whence that tnusick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire witch herselfe now solacing With a new... | |
| Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 388 pages
...meet ; The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet Now soft, now loud,...call ; The gentle 'warbling wind low answered to all. Fairy Queen, Book ii. Canto 12, Stanza 71. Dr. Warton says of these lines, that they " are of " themselves... | |
| Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...meet; The silver-sounding instruments diet meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet Now soft, now loud,...call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. Fairy Queen, Book ii. Canto 12, Stanza 71. Dr. Warton says of these lines, that they " are of " themselves... | |
| Isaac Weld - Killarney, Lakes of - 1812 - 360 pages
...meet With the base murmure of the water's fall. The water's fall, with difference discreet, Now soil, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. 8 He who has never sailed along the shores of Glena by the light of the moon, nor ever listened to... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...instruments divine respondence meet: The sil\er sounding instruments did meet With the base murrnure of the waters fall : The waters fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did nil, The gently warbling wind lowe answering » all. § 78. Hearing. THE second bulwarke was the hearing... | |
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