 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
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...love was in the next degree : 'Twas but a kindred strain 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 ; Honor but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...soul The various turns of chance below ; And, now and then, a sigh he stole; And tears began to flow. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but ah empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 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; Honor but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 120 pages
...were three moods or measures of music among the ancients — (1) The Lydian, or most doleful — ' Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.' — Dryden. (2) The Phrygian, or most sprightly. (3) The Dorian, or grave and majestic. 5. A recorder... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1867 - 448 pages
...deity | ** they | shout a | round" | | *"* A | present | deity | "~" the | vaulted | roofs re- | — Softly | sweet in | Lydian | measures | Soon he | soothed his | soul to | pleasures. | — | "* The | princes ap | plaud with a | furious | joy"1 | | " And the | king seized a | flambeau... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...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 ; l" Never ending, still beginning,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...love was in the next degree : 'T was but a kindred sound to move, 75 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 ; 80 Never ending, still beginning,... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...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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