 Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...  Nature of the mind - Page 256by John Mason Good - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...thoughts would soar : Thy mercy | o'er my life has flowed, That mercy | 1 adore." TROCHAIC METBE. " Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble, — Honor | but an empty bubble." ANAPAESTIC METRE. " How fleet... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...thoughts would soar : Thy mercy | o'er my life has flowed, That mercy | I adore." TROCHAIC METRE. " Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble, — Honor | but an empty bubble." ANAPJESTIC METRE. " How fleet... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...thoughts would soar : Thy mercy | o'er my life has flowed, That mercy 1 1 adore." TROCHAIC METRE. " Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble, — Honor [ but an empty bubble." ANAP.ESTIC METRE. " How fleet... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...love was in the next degree ; 'T was but a kindred strain to move ; For pity melts the soul to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures, War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...love was in the next degree : 'T was but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. DRYDEN. 431 War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...That love was in the next degree : 'Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...sunbeams, 4 1 The Lydian measure was very soft and sweet. So Dryden, OJa on St. Cecilia's Day:— " Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures." 3 A charming adaptation from Shakspeare's " Nymph's Reply to the passionate Shepherd ":— " If these... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pages
...predominates, from those that succeed them, where the R frequently, and perhaps designedly, occurs: " Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures ;" And:— " Now strike the golden lyre again, A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ; Break his bands of sleep... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...That love was in the next degree ; 'Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...That love was in the next degree : 'Twas but a kindred sound to move; For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
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