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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Voice |
| And after the fire a still small voice. 1 Kings, Chap. xix. Ver. 12. | 1 |
| With voices sweet entuned, and so small, That methought it the sweetest melody That ever I heard in my life. Chaucer.—Flower and Leaf. | 2 |
| At every close she made, th’ attending throng Reply’d, and love the burden of the song: So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note, It seem’d the music melted in the throat. Dryden.—His version of Chaucer’s Flower and Leaf. | 3 |
| The world can’t hear the still small voice, Such is its bustle and its noise. Green.—On Barclay’s Apology. | 4 |
| The still small voice of gratitude. Gray.—For Music, Stanza 5. | 5 |
| The still small voice is wanted. Cowper.—The Task, Book V. Line 685. | 6 |
| I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. Tickell.—Colin and Lucy, Verse 4. | 7 |
| The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear. Longfellow.—Birds of Passage. (The Haunted House.) | 8 |
| The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. Psalm vi. Ver. 8. (Prayer Book Version.) | 9 |
| O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous! Shakespeare.—King Richard III., Act I. Scene 2. (Anne to Gloster.) | 10 |
| Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act V. Scene 3. (Lear referring to the Death of Cordelia.) | 11 |
| The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. Pope.—To Augustus, Book II. Epi. I. Line 89. | 12 |
| [Vox populi vox Dei is quoted as a proverb in the twelfth century. Riley’s Dict. of Classical Quotations, 506.] | 13 |
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