 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...comparison depending on this principle, the following example may be quoted : — " The music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." Here the comparison is founded on the similarity of the effect produced ; for no kind of music bears... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...in consequence of the similarity of the effects produced on the mind. EX A MPLE. The music 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... | |
 | James Caughey - Revivals - 1857 - 424 pages
...tender ; something akin to what one feels sometimes when recalling the memories of the faded past ; u like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." 44 Forsaken stood the hall, Worms ate the floor, the tap'stry fled the walls ; No fire the kitchen's... | |
 | David Williams - English literature - 1858 - 388 pages
...and comparing it to another, to which it bears a relation and resemblance; as " the music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul."—Oman. Or, this from Young's Revenge : " The maid that loves Goes out to sea upon a shatti-r'd... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...looks on Crona's silent vale. Sorrow, like a cloud on the snn, shades the soul of Clessammor. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the «oui. Pleasant are the words of the song, »aid Cuchullin, and lovely nre the tales of oilier times.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1860 - 416 pages
...effect of music on the mind to the recollection of departed joys, is beautiful : " The music of Caryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant, and mournful to the soul." The same author thus beautifully illustrates the fatal effects of sorrow on the mind : " They fall away,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1861 - 496 pages
...looks on Crona's silent vale. Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessummor. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the sonl. Pleasant are the words of the song, said Cuchullin, and lovely are the tales of other times.... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - English language - 1864 - 516 pages
...in consequence of the similarity of the effects produced on the mind. EXAMPLE . The music ot 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... | |
 | Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 652 pages
...spirit of Loda, when he comes in the roar of a thousand storms, and scatters battles from his eyes." " The music of Carril was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." He also abounds in metaphors. " She was covered with the light of beauty ; but her heart was the home... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...comparison depending on this principle, the following example may be quoted : — ' The music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.' Here the comparison is founded on the similarity of the effect produced ; for no kind of music bears... | |
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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. 
