Don't I feel in my soul that I am part of this vast
harmonious whole?
Its discordant clashes sweep upward in one
harmonious tone that blends with the music of other worlds--to complete God's orchestra.
The Spencerian stanza, with its rich variety of movement and its
harmonious closes, long shut "Childe Harold" from me, and whenever I found a poem in any book which did not rhyme its second line with its first I read it unwillingly or not at all.
"How can there be a completely
harmonious union without the combination of the Four in One, viz.
I'll ask him about that life-book myself, but I want you to tell him that you told me the story of lost Margaret and ask him if he will let me use it as a thread of romance with which to weave the stories of the life-book into a
harmonious whole."
"Her shining tresses, divided in two parts, encircle the
harmonious contour of her white and delicate cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness.
The men however, are not quite so
harmonious in their utterance, and when excited upon any subject, would work themselves up into a sort of wordy paroxysm, during which all descriptions of rough-sided sounds were projected from their mouths, with a force and rapidity which was absolutely astonishing.
Only, since our last journey thither, the walls had taken a grayer tint, and the brickwork assumed a more
harmonious copper tone; the trees had grown, and many that then only stretched their slender branches along the tops of the hedges, now bushy, strong, and luxuriant, cast around, beneath boughs swollen with sap, great shadows of blossoms of fruit for the benefit of the traveler.
"Thus Caedmon, keeping in mind all he heard, and, as it were, chewing the cud, converted the same into most
harmonious verse; and sweetly repeating the same, made his masters in their turn his hearers.
We are so
harmonious, and you have been a blacksmith - would you mind it?"
Next in order to harmonies, rhythms will naturally follow, and they should be subject to the same rules, for we ought not to seek out complex systems of metre, or metres of every kind, but rather to discover what rhythms are the expressions of a courageous and
harmonious life; and when we have found them, we shall adapt the foot and the melody to words having a like spirit, not the words to the foot and melody.
One saw it in the lines of her figure, the make and motion of her hands, the flow of her dress, the droop of her hair, unconscious yet
harmonious, and as attractive to many as beauty itself.