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A thousand trills and quivering sounds
In airy circles o'er us fly,
Till, wafted by a gentle breeze,
They faint and languish by degrees,
And at a distance die.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: An Ode for St. Cecelia's Day (VI)
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A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 18)
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By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
Author: William Congreve
Source: Mourning Bride (act I, sc. 1)
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I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives
'Twixt it and silence.
Author: James Sheridan Knowles
Source: Virginius (act V, sc. 2)
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Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: Enigma (last line), "Cut off my head, etc."
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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 550)
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Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds,
At which the universal host up sent
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 540)
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Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 476)
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To all proportioned terms he must dispense
And make the sound a picture of the sense.
Author: Christopher Pitt
Source: Translation of Vida's Art of Poetry
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The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Source: Al Aaraaf (pt. II, l. 124)
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 365)
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but
the saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Boy at IV, v)
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What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at II, iii)
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Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
Author: Isaac Watts
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs--Funeral Thoughts (bk. II, vol. IX, hymn 63)
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My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: The Fountain
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