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" AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove : 'Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While... "
The Minstrel, Or, The Progress of Genius, with Some Other Poems - Page 123
by James Beattie - 1803 - 147 pages
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The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 pages
...Hirmit. _£a_T the clofe of the day, when the hamlet is ftill, And mortals the fweets of forgetfulnefs prove ; "When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's fong in the grove : 'Ttvas thus by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung fymphonious,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...his, the relish of their souls. AKENSIDE. . CHAPTER tr. PATHETIC PIECES'. SECTION I. The hermit. A, T the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals thr sweets of forgetfulness prove ; Wht-n nought hut th- torrent is heard on the hill, And nought l>ur...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...form to Ins, the relish of their souls. CHAP. V. PATHfclTC PIECES. SECTION I. The Hermit. At the elose of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetful ness prove; When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...form to bis the relish of thsir SOP!-, CHAPTER T. PATHETIC PIECES. SECTION I. TUB HKB.M1T. AT tlie close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfuloess prove ; When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 pages
...clofe of the day, when the hamlet is dill, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulnefs pvove ; T A ht n nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's fong in the grove Tw.is thus by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp run:; fymp'ionious, a...
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The minstrel; or, The progress of genius: and other poems. With an ...

James Beattie - 1816 - 242 pages
...no more To Mirth's enlivening strain ; For present pleasure soon is o'er, And all the past is vain." THE HERMIT. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet...nought but the nightingale's song in the grove : 'Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Ami lend an ear to Damon's woe, Who sings her praise, and sings forlorn. § 128. The Hermit. BEATTIE. AT the. close of the day, when the hamlet is still. And mortals the sweetsof forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...his, the relish of their souls. AKENSIJDf, CHAP. V. .. ... PATHETIC PIECES. SECTION I. Tlie Hermit. . the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets offorgelfulness prove; When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, • And nought but the nightingale's...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 31

1832 - 1102 pages
...to me all one with Bowzy Beelzebub; so that, bewildered by that infinite series of small sa tans, " At the close of the day when the hamlet is still,...heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's voice in the grove;" I am haunted by the mysterious thought of "one-iu many," and the still more mysterious...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. THE HERMIT. BY BEATTIE. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,...And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill. And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove : "Twas...
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