 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
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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,...louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes onl With easy force it opens all the cells Where Mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...hear I* touched within us, and the heart replies. How eoft the music of those village bells, Faffing at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying...louder still Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on I With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! 10 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. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, * 15 That in a few short moments... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...mind those beautifully descriptive lines of Cowper's — How soft the music of those village bells, eve — he eciw. What wonder if his being thus became...thoughts, had there no place ; yet was his heart Lowly i The evening was passed chiefly in planning our proceedings for the next day, and talking over such... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...descriptive lines of Cowper's — How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval« upon the ear, In cadence sweet, now dying all away,...louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on. The evening was passed chiefly in planning our proceedings for the next day, ana talking over such... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 226 pages
...This is the Christian's faith! 'ELLS. THE VILLAGE BELLS. " How soft the music of those village bells, Falling, at intervals, upon the ear In cadence sweet,...force it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept." THERE is a lovely English sound Upon the English air, It comes when else had silence foimd Its quiet... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 382 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...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.... | |
 | England - 1835 - 802 pages
...which Cowper has celebrated in harmonious verse : ' How soft the music of those village bells, Fulling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying...pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous us the gale comes on !' r*t Tot*, bk. vi. 1.6-10. . I shall close this short and imperfect paper with... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...musick of those village hells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, how dying all n\v;iy. Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and...kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and n.- pain*. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, That in a few short moments... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 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,...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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