 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 psl.
...the mind, though they resemble each other, strictly speaking, in nothing. For example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says,...that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.' This is happy and delicate ; yet no kind of music bears any resemblance to a feeling of the mind, such... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 psl.
...several terms, and introduced, by an adjective implying likeness, may have a comma preceding it. As, ' The music of Carryl, was like the memory of joys,...that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.'* A comma may be inserted before a participle, that admits some subsequent words. As, Milton compares... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 psl.
...strictly speaking, in nothing. For example, to describe the natureof softandmelaucholvmusic, Ossiansays," The music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy arid delicate; yet no kind of music bears any resemblance to the memory of past joys.... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1832 - 444 psl.
...dans une salle déserte , elle annonçoit la mort d'un héros. Carril accompanied his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past> pleasant , and mournful lo the soûl. The ghosts of departed Bards heard it from Slimora's side, soft spunds spread along the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 246 psl.
...mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people." " The musick of Caryl wa» like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." " pur Indians are like those wild plants which thrive best in the shade, but which wither when exposed... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 psl.
...one, when recalled, serves to strengthen the impression made by the other. For example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says, 'The music of Carry 1 was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.' This is happy... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1834 - 454 psl.
...dans une salle déserte, elle annonçoit la mort d'un héros. Carril accompanied his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant, and mournful to the soûl. The ghosts of departed Bards heard it from Slimora's side, soft sounds spread along the wood,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 psl.
...sentiment is plainly similar to the well-known comparison in Ossian : " Carril joined his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." During this sojourn, his studies. as his habits, were entirely French; but he was restored to Italy... | |
 | 1836 - 508 psl.
...whenever my mind reverts to the Church of the Trinity, I seem to hear those ravishing notes anew, " like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." Never, perhaps, before or since, have I felt so much devotion in a Catholic church, as on that occasion.... | |
 | 1837 - 648 psl.
...the invisible sentiments and operations of the mind. When Ossian asserts that the ' music of Caryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul,' or when one prophet declares that, in the afflictions with which Jerusalem was visited, the Almighty... | |
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The music of Carryl was, like the ." memory of joys that are past, pleasant and 
