 | George Burrowes - Bible - 1853 - 542 pages
...the same sensations in the breast, by suggesting analogies: as when Ossian says, "The music of Carryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." "The grounds or causes of beauty, while the result or internal emotion is always identical in its nature,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1853 - 542 pages
...looks on Cona's silent vale. Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to he soul. Pleasant are the words of the song, said Cuchullin, and lovely are the tales of ither times.... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...must he strihing, natural, and suitable to the suhject and the occasion ; as, " The music was lihe the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." Here, the comparison is made not hetween one kind of music and another, hut, hetween music and the... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...after, when his mind reverted to this church, he seemed to hear those heavenly, ravishing voices anew, " like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." Never before had he felt so much devotion in a Catholic church, and he was reluctant to leave a spot... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1854 - 1174 pages
...di un croe. • Canil accompanied his voice. The music was like the memory of joye that are ¡xist, pleasant, and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed Bards heard it from Slimora's side , soft sound* spread along the wood , and the silent valleys of night rejoice. So when... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...in consequence of tho similarity of the effects produced on the mind. EXAMPLE. The mutic of Carryl, was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. All comparisons are reducible to two characters: — explaining and embellishing. The former is mainly... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 pages
...dwells in the bosom of the sad," if the beautiful Ossianic expression. Another, equally beautiful. if, " Like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." works of so great a poet, we must say that the origin assigned to Melancholy, however philosophically... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - Apologetics - 1856 - 780 pages
...announcing at" night, in a lonely chamber, the death of a hero. "Carril accompanied his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant...the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard it from Slimora's side; soft sounds spread along the woods, and the valleys of night rejoice.' So, when he... | |
 | James Clement Moffat - Aesthetics - 1856 - 300 pages
...glance more like ornament than that celebrated simile, in which Ossian says, that " The music of Caryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul" ? Yet when compared with the connection and the object for which it was written, nothing can be farther... | |
 | James Caughey - 1857 - 444 pages
...to recall those bursts of living melody, so overwhelming and so frequent in our chapels at home: " Like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul!" The minister at length announced his text: " He went about doing good;" and I am sure we were in a state... | |
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The other contains a short, but exquisitely tender image, accompanied with the finest poetical painting. " The " music of Carril was like the memory of joys that " are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. 
