 THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.  Faust: A Tragedy - Page 67by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear ii pleated With melting ain or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord, in unison with...what we hear, Is touched within us, and the heart relilies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...sounds, And, as the mind is pitch' d, the ear is pleased 114 THE VILLAGE BELLS. With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch' (1 within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village-bells, Falling at intervals... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...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. COWPER'S Task. 13. Sweet notes ! they tell of former peace,... | |
 | Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1848 - 748 pages
...remembrance of Cowpcr's beautiful lines is enough to make one's heart sicken at an ill-conducted belfry:— " How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the car, , In cadence sweet," &c. Or, in deeper train of thought— " Dost hear the toll Of that sad, solemn... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 pages
..." leafy month of June," I heard the same sounds of mirth and melancholy, and said then, as now — How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet. There is solemn and touching truth in the remark of Pope, that every year carries away something beloved... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...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. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave. Some chord in unison with what we hear * " With thee conversing, \ foiget aV\ time," Par. Lort^vv Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...in souls a sympathy with sounds ; And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs of martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with...replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Palling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and... | |
 | Grange-over-Sands - 1850 - 144 pages
...manifested in the loveliness of nature's handiwork. 21 J CHAPTER III. CARTMEL CHUKCH. CHAPTER IIJ. " How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! new dying all away, Now pealing lond again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs of hrine. The theatre too small shall sulliv: i • Its...than it admits Shall sigh at their exclusion, and Palling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and... | |
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