...shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive...

...Health ever blooming ; unambitious toil ; Calm contemplation, and poetic ease. THOMSON'S Seasont. 5. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swain responsive...

...ancestors, commanded a general release of all those , who were confined in prison for debt." 17. " Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose." 18. "The relation of sleep to night appears to have been expressly intended by our benevolent Creator."...

...meet his latter mi, Angels around befriending virtue's friend : Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heav'n commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder...

...Ye intend to ... take your leave of Patrick or he gang (OED). | 1770 Goldsmith, Deserted Vill. 112, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. | 1785 Burns, Hey, The Dusty Miller 3, He will win a shilling Or he spend a groat. ) 1785 Idem, The...

...famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation...the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past I'1 But this passage, though it is fine, is fanciful. Does he who retires into the country to crown...

...virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; 110 And, all his prospects brightening to the last. His Heaven commences ere the world be past! fl fl B Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done; Even now, methinks,...

...as one of the most fascinating and beautiful effusions of British genius'. Sweet was the sound . . . Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose, There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive...

...(75). By its form, apostrophe pretends to ignore the reader. In contrast, the verse paragraph beginning "Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, /Up yonder hill the village murmur rose" (113-14) drops apostrophe and personification ("Sweet" is not an epithet here), the lines sound less...

...Virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; All, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive...