 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...added 1674. 10I H0DIRRAS. Part 11. Her voice the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. 620 This has been done by some, who those Th' ador'd in rbyme would kill in prose ; And in those ribands... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pages
...foreshow 615 Unto her under-world below. Her voice, the music of the spheres, So lond, it deafens mortals ears ; As wise philosophers have thought ; And that's the cause we hear it not. 620 This has been done by some, who those Th' ador'd in rhime, would kick in prose ; And in those ribbons... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...foreshow 61* Unto her under world below. Her voice, the music of the sphere*, So loud it deafens mortal's ears; As wise philosophers have thought ; And that's the cause we hear it not. 620 This has been done by some, who those Th* ador'd in rhyme, would kick in prose; And in those ribands... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1814 - 408 pages
...has drawn some of his most exquisite passages, and which Butler ridicules in the following lines : " The music of the spheres, So loud it deafens mortal...have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not." t Syrinx, who was changed into a bundle of reeds. Daphne would have added to thy stroke sweetpess,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 414 pages
...has drawn some of his most exquisite passages, and which Butler ridicules in the following lines : " The music of the spheres, So loud it deafens mortal...have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not." t Syrinx, who was changed into a bundle of reeds. Daphne would have added to thy stroke sweetness,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...privilege than three Jews ?" »**»*»* " Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud it deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have 'thought, And that's the cause we hear it not." comparing the high to the low*, or by pretending to raise the low to the lofty-f- ; he succeeds equally... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 454 pages
...foreshow Cnto her under-world below. Her voice, the music of the spheres. So loud, it deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. This has been done by some, who those The' adored in rhyme would kick in prose ; And in those ribbons... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...foreshow Unto her under-world below. Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. This has been done by some, who those The' ador'd in rhyme would kick in prose ; And in those ribbons... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 402 pages
...those in heav'n above, can tell What strange events they do foreshow, 615 Unto her under-world below. Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortal ears ; I66O. p. 182, &c.) Humourous is the account of the opinion of the Indian Kings, concerning the patches... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...foreshow Unto her under-world below. Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. This has been done by some, who those They' adored in rhyme would kick in prose ; And in those ribbons... | |
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