 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 str.
..."Nothing can be more beautiful than Dr. Goldsmith's description of evening in the Deserted Village. " 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... | |
 | 1800 - 322 str.
...village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung ; The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 str.
...village murmur rose; There, as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 str.
...village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften 'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 str.
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 str.
...village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 str.
...village murmur rose ; There, as I past with careless steps and stow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let... | |
 | 1806 - 330 str.
...village murmur rose ; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softcn'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung ; The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 str.
...village murmur rose ! There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung ; The, sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool ; The playful children just... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 str.
...way ; And, all his prospects briglit'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! us munner rose ; There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softiMi'd from... | |
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The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school... 
