 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...Conclusion. THE TASK. BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'd With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.... | |
 | Emma De Lisle - 1810 - 644 pages
...sensibility, and awakert all the softest emotions: — There is in souls a sympathy with sounds, • And as the mind is pitch-d, the ear is pleas'd With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or gfave : Some chord, in unison with what we feel, I•toncb'd within us, and the heart replies.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...seIessness....Cbnclusipn. THE TASK. BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And, as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...souls a sympathy with sounds ; [pleas'd. And as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies, ty," every object which present* to the mental eye a picture of those days, when they are long past,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...Conclnsion. THE TASK. BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. THERE is in fonls a sympathy with sonnds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'd With melting airs or martial, briak or grave ; Some chord in nnison with what we hear Is tonch'd within ns, and the heart replies.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...mind is piteh'd the ear is pleas'd With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 886 pages
...preacher." REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. " There is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; And as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what \ve hear Is totieh'd within us, and the heart replies."... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...is pitch'd, the ear is pleas' d With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies-. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet ! Now dying... | |
 | Gilbert McMaster - Psalmody - 1818 - 190 pages
...every fibre of the heart of man. " There is in souls a sympathy with sound i -, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies."* Who has not felt the melting influence of the soft strains of well conducted music? And how powerfully... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...winter — Meditation better than books. FROM BOOK VI. THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'd With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.... | |
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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 Memory... 
