 THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.  Glimpses of a Strange World - Page 161by Henry Sandé Stollnitz - 1908 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...retired man vindicated from the charge of uselessness — Conclusion. BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK -AT NOON. THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the...mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...hollow ditches fills, and floats the plain, And sailors furl their dropping sheets amain. DBYDEN. MUSIC. THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; And as...mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear, Is touched within us, and the... | |
 | 1856 - 778 pages
...together to join in the worship of God ought not to excite any but elevating and pleasurable emotions. " There is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is piteh'd, the ear is pleased ; With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave. Some chord in unison... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...description of the winter's walk at noon is one of the most feeling and elegant specimens of his manner : There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And, as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...retreat To peep at such a world — to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. Ib. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; — Ib., bk. vi. The few... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1880 - 766 pages
...found among the languages of the world. 1. CHAPTER XII. OF PROSODY, OR THE MUSICAL ELEMENT IN SPEECH. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; And as the mind is pitched, the ear is pleased — William Cowper, The Task, vi. I. 814. THE first of these chapters was... | |
 | William Cowper - Olney (England) - 1880 - 86 pages
...Cowper heard the music of the village bells, alluded to in the opening of the sixth book of the Task. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched, the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial brisk or grave : Some chord, in unison with... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1881 - 562 pages
...bring It to pass — The retired man rindicated from tte charge of uselessm-si —Conclusion. THEEE is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear : Is touch'd within us, and the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...amtinuat. O Musie, sphere-descended maid, Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid ! Collins, Pauioni, 95. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd "With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd... | |
 | William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1883 - 294 pages
...either child, The pert made perter, and the tame made wild. Tirocinium. RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD. THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the...mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave. Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart... | |
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