 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
 | George Dodd - Industries - 1843 - 580 pages
...well as Cowper, but which few can express so well : — " 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 on." The merry peal which marks the holiday or the day of festivity is, as we have before observed, not... | |
 | George Dodd - Industries - 1843 - 622 pages
...familiar — effects which many have felt as well as Cowper, but which few can express so well:— " How soft the music of those village hells, Falling...dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder •till, Clear and sonorous as the gale conies on." The merry peal which marks the holiday or the day... | |
 | George Dodd - Industries - 1843 - 574 pages
...well as Cowper, hut which few can express so well :— " How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet!...pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous ai the gale comes on." The merry peal which marks the holiday or the day of festivity is, as we have... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, THE POWER OF MUSIC. 237 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... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...comparisons of most of the English poets. Thus says Cowper : " How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear ; In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now peeling loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on." Wordsworth thus speaks... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 274 pages
...wished not to be separated. THE VILLAGE BELLS. BY LEL " 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." CoWPEK. THERE is a lovely English sound Upon the English air, It comes when else had silence found... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | 1875 - 828 pages
...sympathy with sounds, ' in the following musical lines : — " 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1845 - 394 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,...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale conies on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...comparisons of most of the English poets. Thus says Cowper : " How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear ; In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now peeling loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on." Wordsworth thus speaks... | |
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