 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 Works of Edmund Spenser - Page xxxvby Edmund Spenser - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 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. Young. Q SACRED Solitude ! divine Retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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 MISERY OF A COURTIER'S LIFE. Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 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 mosick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire witch herselfe now solacing... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...meet With the base murmur of the water's fall; The water's fall, with difference discreet, JVbw soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all." *> " The gentle warbling wind," &c. This exquisite stanza is a specimen of perfect... | |
 | Frank Ives Scudamore - Animals, Mythical - 1861 - 80 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." And unless those who have written on the natural history of Fairy Land have erred... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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." Then from the lips of an unseen singer there issues an enthralling Epicurean strain... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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. ON HEAVENLY LOVE. LOVE, lift me up upon thy golden wings From this base world unto... | |
 | Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin - English literature - 1863 - 304 pages
...inftruments divine refpondence meet : The filver-founding inftruments did meet With the bafe murmur of the water's fall: The water's fall with difference...call : The gentle warbling wind low anfwered to all." Now the queftion arifes, if the poetry of Spenfer poffefles thefe merits, as may abundantly be proved,... | |
 | 1863 - 276 pages
...inftruments divine refpondence meet: The filver-founding inftruments did meet With the bafe murmur of the water's fall: The water's fall with difference...call : The gentle warbling wind low anfwered to all." Now the queftion arifes, if the poetry of Spenfer poflefles thefe merits, as may abundantly be proved,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 592 pages
...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 to all.... Upon a bed of roses she was layd, As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin;... | |
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