| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | The sound must seem an echo to the sense. |
| Alexander Pope | The sound must seem an echo to the sense. |
| Christopher Pitt | To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. |
| Isaac Watts | Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. |
| James Sheridan Knowles | I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. |
| William Congreve | By magic numbers and persuasive sound. |
| John Milton | And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. |
| John Milton | 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. |
| John Milton | Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. |
| Joseph Addison | 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. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. |
| William Wordsworth | 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. |
| William Shakespeare | I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart, but the saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.' |
| William Shakespeare | What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak! |
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