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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 Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life

Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 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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The Progressive English reading books, Volume 3

Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...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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First Lessons in Composition: In which the Principles of the Art are ..., Book 1

George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1862 - 204 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" Florid...
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The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader, Volume 6

James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...playful children just let loose from school, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, 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. But...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 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 lill'il each pause the nightingale had made. 8...
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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...me, sir, whose dog are you ? POPE. — On the Collar of a Dog he gave to the Prince. The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. GOLDSMITH. — Deserted Village, Line 121. Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer. DOG. — Having...
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Favourite English Poems: Thomson to Tennyson, 1700-1860

English poetry - 1863 - 392 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. But...
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The advanced reader

Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...o'er the pool; The playful children1 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 1 the nightingale had made....
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with a memoir by W. Spalding, Volume 44

Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1864 - 182 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. But...
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The Poetical Works of James Beattie, and the Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith

James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 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. But...
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