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Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory:      Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?

From Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by Meredith, George

He who has never stood pensive by a friend's side in such an hour of poetic dreaming can hardly understand its inexpressible soothingness.

From The Purse by Balzac, Honoré de

In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory:           Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?

From The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 by Meredith, George