...with thy silent woods?" He retired* in the sound of his song. Carril joined his voice.) The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard it on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent...

...exquisitely tender image, accompanied with the finest poetical painting. " The " music of Carril was like the memory of joys that " are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The " ghosts of departed bards heard it from Slimora's " side. Soft sounds spread along the wood; and...

...And finds all desert now, and meets the ghosts Of my departed joys, a numerous train ! " The music is like the memory of joys that are past ; pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards -heard in Sliraora's side. Soft sounds spread along the woods. The silent...

...exquisitely tender image, accompanied with the finest poetical painting. " The music of Carril was like the " memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful " to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard it "from Silmora's side. Soft sounds spread along ths " wood; and...

...with thy silent woods'}" He retired, in the sound of his song. Carril joined his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent...

...example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says, " The " music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that are past, " pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delicate. Yet, surely, no kind of music has any resemblance to a feeling of the mindj...

...example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says, " The " music of Carryl was, like the memory of joys that « are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delicate ; yet no kind of music bears any resemblance to the memory of past joys....

...This is a ludicrous hyperbole. Comparison is a familiar figure....example, The mmsic of Carryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. OSSIAN . , Some tliink the spirit is apt to feed on the flesh like hungry wines upon raw beef. SWIFT....

...example, to deseribe the nature of soft and melaneholy musie, Ossian says, " The musie of Carry! was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delieate ; yet no kind of musie hear s any resemblanee to the memory of past joys....

...One of the most beautiful similies in the Poems of Ossian is of this kind. " The music of Carryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the souL" The resemblance is here founded on the effect which the music of Carryl produced, the effect of pleasing...