 How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals 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...  Poems - Page 167by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet,...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, That in a few short moments... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 216 pages
...beautifully than COWPER: — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the car In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing...all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heajd A kindred melody, the scene recurs, Such comprehensiye views the spirit takes, That in a few... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 208 pages
...described, but by none more beautifully than COWPER: — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet,...Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! . With easy fores it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 280 pages
...Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, new dying all away, Now pealing loud again, arid louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, That in a few short moments... | |
 | 1802 - 570 pages
...îë a similar occasion, thus expressed himsejf: Ò " How soft the music oí those village bells "* Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comer, on," &c. The idea of the lamented Bard is here evidently imitated, but hy (to means in a lervile... | |
 | Margaret Cullen - 1802 - 300 pages
...sounds; " Some chord in unison with what we hear " Istouch'd within us, and all the heart replies. " With easy force it opens all the cells " Where Mem'ry...kindred melody, the scene recurs, " And with it all its pleasures, and its pains. " T threw myself on my knees before a chair, and covering my face with... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pages
...what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. 5 How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and linider still, Clear ami sonorous, x.? the gale comes on ! 10 With easy force it opens all the cells... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...intervals upon the ear In cadence sweer, now dying a!l away, Now pealing loud again, and louder siill, ' \ Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on ! With easy...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Speaking of retirement also — these sensible lines occxir — Meditation... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1805 - 216 pages
...described, but by none more beautifully than COWPER : — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet,...on ! ' With easy force it opens all the cells Where mcm'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, Such comprehensive views the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...what we hear - Is touched within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet,...on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures... | |
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