 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
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...precious stone set in the silver sea. — Shakespeare. The winds tcith teonder u'hist. — Milton, /Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. — Dryden, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo of the sense. —... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 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... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...That 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, —... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 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... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 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... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 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... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 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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