 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 - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 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 Dryden - 1874 - 740 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 - 1876 - 564 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 —... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 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. War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honor but an empty bubble, Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...love was in the nexfc 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. AVar, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble, Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 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. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 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. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...stole, And tears began to flow. "F 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. War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honor but an empty bubble, Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1878 - 260 pages
...dolce ; and that smoothness is to the voice what the soft pedal is to the instrument. For example : Softly sweet in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. These two lines, from Dryden's celebrated Ode, must have softness and smoothness in delivery ; the... | |
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