Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Some chord in unison with what we hear

Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

How soft the music of those village bells

Falling at intervals upon the ear

In cadence sweet!

The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 1.

Here the heart

May give a useful lesson to the head,

And Learning wiser grow without his books.

The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 85.