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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in every thing that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understand with ease; After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all. Cowper.—The Needless Alarm, Line 55. | 1 |
| The murmur that springs from the growing of grass. Poe.—Al Aaraaf. | 2 |
| The verie pleasaunte sounde which the trees of the forest do make when they growe. Anonymous.—Quoted by Poe, ante 300. | 3 |
| Sound— That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud— Is not its form—its voice—most palpable and loud? Poe.—Al Aaraaf. | 4 |
| Jove himself, who hears a thought, Knows not when we pass by. Killigrew.—A song in “The Conspiracy,” a Tragedy. | 5 |
| And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. St. John.—Revelation, Chap. i. Ver. 12. | 6 |
| The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw. Isaiah.—Chap. ii. Ver. 1. (That is, the vision.) | 7 |
| The green trees whispered low and smil’d; It was a sound of joy. Longfellow.—Prelude to Voices of the Night, Stanza 9. | 8 |
| I heard the trailing garment of the night Sweep through her marble halls. Longfellow.—Hymn to the Night. | 9 |
| He goes but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again. Shakespeare.—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Scene 1. (Quince to Thisbe.) | 10 |
| To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 3. (Sir Toby to Sir Andrew.) | 11 |
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