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And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the
fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Author: Bible
Source: I Kings (ch. XIX, v. 12)
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For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying,
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of
the Lord, make his paths straight.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. III, v. 3)
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Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Flight of the Duchess (st. 15)
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The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 13)
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His voice no touch of harmony admits,
Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.
The two extremes appear like man and wife
Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Rosciad (l. 1,003)
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He ceased: but left so charming on their ear
His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 414), (Pope's translation)
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And though the sound had parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Eupheme (IV)
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Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus (pt. I, The Divine Tragedy, The First Passover, pt. VI)
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Thy voice
Is a celestial melody.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. V)
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Her silver voice
Is the rich music of a summer bird,
Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Spirit of Poetry (l. 55)
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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
It ravishes all senses.
Author: Philip Massinger
Source: The Old Law (act IV, sc. 2, l. 34)
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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 1)
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale
and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou
art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)
Author: Plutarch
Source: Laconic Apothegms, credited to Lacon "Incert. XIII" by Lipsius
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Her voice was like the voice the stars
Had when they sang together.
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Source: The Blessed Damozel (st. 10)
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A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses
and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without
emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.
Author: George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Dudevant)
Source: Handsome Lawrence (ch. III)
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The voice is nothing but beaten air.
[Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Naturalinum Quoestionum (bk. II)
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I thank you for your voices, thank you!
Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,
I have no further with you.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, iii)
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Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (King Lear at V, iii)
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I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of
their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us;
but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently
as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii)
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And rolling far along the gloomy shores
The voice of days of old and days to be.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: The Passing of Arthur
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He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Castle of Indolence (canto I, st. 20)
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My voice stuck in my throat.
[Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (II, 774)
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Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Author: Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Source: None
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It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Author: Robert Purvis
Source: None
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Author: Dorothy Parker
Source: None
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Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Author: Lebanese Proverb
Source: None
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The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Author: Kate Chopin
Source: None
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. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .
Author: Amelia Barr
Source: None
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Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
Author: Edgar Fawcett
Source: None
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It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom.
Author: William D. Howells
Source: None
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There is no index so sure as the voice.
Author: Tancred
Source: None
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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