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“I call the Living--I mourn the Dead--
I break the Lightning.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: inscribed on the Great Bell of the Minister of Schaffhausen
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“Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells,
One, two, three, four, five, six;
They sound so woundy great,
So wound'rous sweet,
And they troul so merrily.”
Dean Henry Aldridge (Aldrich) Quotes Source: Hark the Merry Christ-Church Bells
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“That all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 49)
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“The church-going bell.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
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“How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at interval 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 slept.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 6)
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“The vesper bell from far
That seems to mourn for the expiring day.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Purgatorio (canto 8, l. 6)
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“Your voices break and falter in the darkness,--
Break, falter, and are still.”
Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte) Quotes Source: The Angelus
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“Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells
When on the undulating air they swim!”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Ode to Rae Wilson
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“While the steeples are loud in their joy,
To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,
Let us chime in a peal, one and all,
For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Song for the Million
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“The old mayor climbed the belfry tower,
The ringers ran by two, by three;
"Pull, if ye never pulled before;
Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
"Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!
Ply all your changes, all your swells,
Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."”
Jean Ingelow Quotes Source: High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
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“The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: The Sabbath Bells
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“For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Bells of San Blas
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“Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and
Clashing, clanging to the pavement
Hurl them from their windy tower!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (prologue)
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“These bells have been anointed,
And baptized with holy water!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (prologue)
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“He heard the convent bell,
Suddenly in the silence ringing
For the service of noonday.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II)
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“The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. III)
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“Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou soundest solemnly,
When, on Sabbath morning,
Fields deserted lie!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. III, ch. III), (quoted)
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“It cometh into court and pleads the cause
Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;
And this shall make, in every Christian clime,
The bell of Atri famous for all time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Sicilian's Tale--The Bell of Atri
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“Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells!”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Those Evening Bells
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“The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves
it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Trinummus (IV, 2, 162)
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“Hear the sledges with the bells,
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night,
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the Heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Source: The Bells (st. 1)
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“Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten golden notes,
And all in tune
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats
On the moon!”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Source: The Bells (st. 2)
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“With deep affection
And recollection
I often think of
Those Shandon bells,
Whose sounds so wild would,
In the days of childhood,
Fling round my cradle
Their magic spells.”
Father Prout (pseudonym of Francis Sylvester Mahony) Quotes Source: The Bells of Shandon
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“And the Sabbath bell,
That over wood and wild and mountain dell
Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy
With sounds most musical, most melancholy.”
Samuel Rogers Quotes Source: Human Life (l. 517)
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