"Dissonant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... endeavour to do away with that superstitious fear of death which is so common—and one would think it was the very occasion to do it;—he never once asked that we might be led to look upon it rationally and calmly.—It's so unreasonable, Mr. Stackpole—it is so dissonant with our views of a benevolent Supreme Being—as if it could be according to his will that his creatures should live lives of tormenting themselves—it so shews a want of ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... had drank tea, I strolled into the garden; they told me it was now called the pleasure-ground. What a dissonant idea of pleasure! those groves, those all'ees, where I have passed so many charming moments, are now stripped up or over-grown—many fond paths I could not unravel, though with a very exact clew in my memory: ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... felt that some one must speak, else all the good they had done in dispelling John Barton's gloom was lost. So after a while he thought of a subject, neither sufficiently dissonant from the last to jar on a full heart, nor too much the same to cherish the continuance of the ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... rude, but not vulgar; he never falls into the prosaic and low familiarity of his drunken associates, for he is, in his way, a poetical being; he always speaks in verse. He has picked up every thing dissonant and thorny in language to compose out of it a vocabulary of his own; and of the whole variety of nature, the hateful, repulsive, and pettily deformed, have alone been impressed on his imagination. The magical ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black
... And to the bearing well of all calamities, All chances incident to mans frail life Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much perswasion sought Lenient of grief and anxious thought, But with th' afflicted in his pangs thir sound 680 Little prevails, or rather seems a tune, Harsh, and of dissonant mood from his complaint, Unless he feel within Some sourse of consolation from above; Secret refreshings, that repair his strength, And fainting spirits uphold. God of our Fathers, what is man! That thou towards him with hand so various, ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... for her task. She and lively Miss Forrester had never discussed spiritual things together. They spoke freely of their choirs and of church, but that never seemed dissonant with the most frivolous social things. Now as Winifred thought of the real Holy Place and the worship there "in spirit and in truth," it seemed difficult to speak of it. She began bravely, and began at the beginning, with Mr. Bond's sermon. She ...
— The First Soprano • Mary Hitchcock
... last, the opinions of philosophers have been so dissonant, so vague, and so unreasonable, as to draw to no conclusion. Some suppose the land to be discovered by the gradual retreat of the ocean, without proposing to explain to us from whence had come the known materials of a former earth, which compose the highest summits of the mountains in the highest ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... that superstitious fear of death which is so common and one would think it was the very occasion to do it; he never once asked that we might be led to look upon it rationally and calmly. It's so unreasonable, Mr. Stackpole it is so dissonant with our views of a benevolent Supreme Being as if it could be according to his will that his creatures should live lives of tormenting themselves it so shows a want of trust ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell |
