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" The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled... "
Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ... - Page 57
by George Keate - 1790
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The deserted village, with notes and a brief sketch of the life of Goldsmith ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1865 - 80 pages
...geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, 120 The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind j These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But...
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The British Poets, Volume 6

1865 - 342 pages
...geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind: These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, 6 And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Line 100. The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Line 121. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Line 141....
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, 120 The watch-dog's voice that bayed d, there will remain — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made....
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Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: The Traveller; Gray's Elegy in a Country ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 pages
...o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, 120 ; The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made....
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Child Classics: The Sixth Reader

Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1917 - 386 pages
...geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind, — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made....
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 pages
...geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind, — These all in sweet confusion sought the glade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made....
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made....
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2

1918 - 2062 pages
...gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watch-dog's voice that bayed may spit upon my curious floor. Would he have gold? I lend it inst — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made....
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Johnson & Goldsmith & Their Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made....
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