 Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...  Nature of the mind - Էջ 250John Mason Good - 1834Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 էջ
...That love was in the next degree ; Twas but a kindred-sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 էջ
...love was in the next degree ; Twas but a kindred-sound to move, . For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures: War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 444 էջ
...the mind ; an effect which is r O jL A* beautifully described on the welWtnowa lines of Dryden's ode, Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. On the other hand, the character of martial music, which rouses and animates the soul, is finely characterized... | |
 | William Duane - 1811 - 378 էջ
...different kinds of ir.ea&ure....the following is an example of which the. sense shews the character :. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures-; War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Never ending still beginning, Fighting still and Still destroying... | |
 | Firdawsī - 1814 - 316 էջ
...handfuls, among their Rowing locks." Vol. 2, p. 14. VERSE 687. Voluptuous damsels trill the sportive lay.'] Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. PHYSIC. ill'd with delight the heroes closer join, And quaflf till midnight rich ambrosial wine, 690... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 էջ
...That love was in the next degree : Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning. Fighting... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 412 էջ
...Phrygian was consecrated to religious ceremonies; and the Lydian was mild and soothing. Thus Dryden : " Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, ; Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures." , The following represents the octochord of Pythagoras, with the names of the strings, anH the corresponding... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 էջ
...love was in the next degree ; 'Twas but a kindred sound to move ; For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 էջ
...love was in the next degree ; 'Twas but a kindred strain to move ; For pity melts the soul to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 464 էջ
...harmony.] The Lydian music was supposed to be of a soft and voluptuous character. Thus Dryden — " Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures." Which when those Knights beheld, with scornefull eye They sdeigned l such lascivious disport, And loath'd... | |
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