 How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Mem'ry...  Poems - Page 203by William Cowper - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 216 pages
...than COWPER: — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the car In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud...all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heajd A kindred melody, the scene recurs, Such comprehensiye views the spirit takes, That in a few... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 208 pages
...than COWPER: — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud...Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! . With easy fores it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, new dying all away, Now pealing loud again, arid louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, That in a few short moments... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, That in a few short moments... | |
 | Margaret Cullen - English fiction - 1802 - 300 pages
...sounds; " Some chord in unison with what we hear " Istouch'd within us, and all the heart replies. " With easy force it opens all the cells " Where Mem'ry...kindred melody, the scene recurs, " And with it all its pleasures, and its pains. " T threw myself on my knees before a chair, and covering my face with... | |
 | 1802 - 570 pages
...expressed himsejf: Т " How soft the music oí those village bells "* Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comer, on," &c. The idea of the lamented Bard is here evidently imitated, but hy (to means in a lervile... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...intervals upon the ear In cadence sweer, now dying a!l away, Now pealing loud again, and louder siill, ' \ Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on ! With easy...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Speaking of retirement also — these sensible lines occxir — Meditation... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - English poetry - 1805 - 216 pages
...than COWPER : — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud...on ! ' With easy force it opens all the cells Where mcm'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, Such comprehensive views the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud...on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English poetry - 1807 - 234 pages
...thrill, " Thus passion deep-felt in the bosom ue'er dies, And if faded, is odorous still ?" d " Whenever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains." COWPER. And the effect produced by the recurrence of a sweet strain,... | |
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