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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.”
Joseph Addison Quotes 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.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 18)
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“By magic numbers and persuasive sound.”
William Congreve Quotes 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.”
James Sheridan Knowles Quotes Source: Virginius (act V, sc. 2)
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“Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: Enigma (last line), "Cut off my head, etc."
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“And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 540)
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“Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
Christopher Pitt Quotes Source: Translation of Vida's Art of Poetry
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“The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Source: Al Aaraaf (pt. II, l. 124)
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“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.'”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at II, iii)
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“Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.”
Isaac Watts Quotes 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.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: The Fountain
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