Careful Words

sounding (n.)

sounding (adj.)

  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

New Testament: 1 Corinthians xiii. 1.

The sounding cataract

Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,

Their colours and their forms, were then to me

An appetite,—a feeling and a love,

That had no need of a remoter charm

By thoughts supplied, nor any interest

Unborrowed from the eye.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,

Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The intellectual power, through words and things,

Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book iii.