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This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For even the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what’s good, yet find the ill. And though this sense first gentle music sound, Her proper object is the speech of men; But that speech, chiefly, which God’s heralds sound, When their tongues utter what His spirit did pen.
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For even the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what’s good, yet find the ill. And though this sense first gentle music sound, Her proper object is the speech of men; But that speech, chiefly, which God’s heralds sound, When their tongues utter what His spirit did pen.
Approximate author period: c. 1598 AD · renaissance
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- Sir John Davies
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- Approximate author period: c. 1598 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 286 · printed citation: Sir John Davies · subject: HEARING
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