 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...  The Fairy Queen - Page 348by Edmund Spenser - 1758Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 546 pages
...meet With the hase 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 to all. I LXXI. There, whence mat musick seemed heard to hee, Was the faire witch he?selfe... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...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 to all. There, whence that tnusick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire witch herselfe now solacing... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did 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... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 386 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall with difference discreet Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...meet With the base murmur 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 to all. $ 116. Description of the Garden of Adonis. THERE is continual spring and harvest... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. The joyous birds shrouded in cheerful shade, Their notes unto the voice attempered... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fall j The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos, and languid brilliancy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. GLACCE AND BR1TOMART EXPLORING THE CAVE OF MERLIN. ******** FULL many ways within... | |
 | 1821 - 504 pages
...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 to all.' Canto XJI. ver. 70, 71. In this luxuriant scene reposes the fair enchantress, who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 402 pages
...meet With the base murmure of the water's fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud unto the wind did call, The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." Book ii. cant. 12. s. 71. These images, one would have thought, were peculiarly calculated... | |
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