The Complete works of Aaron Hill (1685-1750) was published
posthumously for the benefit of his family in 1753 and entitled simply
The Works. Published in four volumes, and consisting of letters
on various subjects, original poems, moral and facetious; it also included
an essay on the art of acting. The phrase "infants noise" occurs in The
Excursion of FANCY: A Pindaric Ode, section IX. From a hilltop, the
speaker in the poem laments about the wastefulness of a battle occuring
on the land below, and he speaks of the howling and bellowing of the embattled
soldiers below as a "hoarse, infant noise." At the end of part IX, the
speaker envies the humble existence of the stars and how, by the nature
of their course in the universe, can turn away from the sufferings of man.
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