 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...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...soul to pleasures: War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying: If... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...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...to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying:... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...measures, Thus he soothed his soul to pleasures. " What is honour ? 'tis a bubble ; What is war ? 'tis toil and trouble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying ! See fair Thais sit beside thee,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...degree ; 'Twasbutakiodred sound to move; For pity melts the mind to lov«. Softly sweet, in Ljdian 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 still, and still destroying.... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning. Fighting still, and still destroying :... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...and affection. It is under this description Dryden speaks of it in^iis Ode to Alexander's Feast— Softly sweet in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. And thus a greater than Dryden, in his wellknown poem, entitled 1'Allegro — And ever against eating... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1830 - 412 pages
...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 pages
...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...soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying.... | |
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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... 
