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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Sound |
| A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o’er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. Addison—An Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day. VI. | 1 |
| A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Coleridge—Ancient Mariner. Pt. V. St. 18. | 2 |
| By magic numbers and persuasive sound. Congreve—Mourning Bride. Act I. Sc. 1. | 3 |
| I hear a sound so fine there’s nothing lives ’Twixt it and silence. James Sheridan Knowles—Virginius. Act V. Sc. 2. | 4 |
| Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. Macaulay—Enigma. “Cut off my head, etc.” Last line. | 5 |
| And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton—Comus. L. 550. | 6 |
| Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell’s concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 540. | 7 |
| Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 476. | 8 |
| To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. Christopher Pitt—Translation of Vida’s Art of Poetry. | 9 |
| The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. Poe—Al Aaraaf. Pt. II. L. 124. | 10 |
| The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope—Essay on Criticism. L. 365. | 11 |
| The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 73. | 12 |
| What’s the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak! Macbeth. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 86. | 13 |
| Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. Isaac Watts—Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Bk. II. Hymn 63. | 14 |
| My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Wordsworth—The Fountain. | 15 |
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