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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

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

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

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

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 — Complete by Meredith, George