Careful Words

harmonious (adj.)

Thoughts that voluntary move

Harmonious numbers.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37.

Heaven open'd wide

Her ever during gates, harmonious sound,

On golden hinges moving.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 205.

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove

The pangs of guilty power and hapless love!

Rest here, distressed by poverty no more;

Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before;

Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,

Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Epitaph on Claudius Philips, the Musician.