Literary notes about Melodious (AI summary)
Across various literary texts, “melodious” is deployed to evoke a sense of auditory beauty that transcends simple sound, imbuing voices, instruments, and even landscapes with a sublime, almost ethereal quality. When describing musical instruments or voices, the term emphasizes a refined harmony and emotional tenderness—as when a character’s tone is rendered as both gentle and captivating [1, 2]. At times, “melodious” extends beyond the literal to characterize natural scenes or even abstract sentiments, suggesting that the very cadence of nature or thought can be as soothing and richly orchestrated as a well-played instrument [3, 4, 5, 6]. Its varied usage not only enhances sensory experience but deepens the reader’s connection to the beauty and rhythm inherent in the narrative.
- In the same melodious voice, coaxing her tenderly as though she were a child, he went on gravely.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - All your theories, in fact, Harry." "Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about," he answered in his slow melodious voice.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - "Some portion of your splendor back on me reflect, Sing out in praiseful chains of melodious links!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo - St. Aubert now observed, that it produced a tone much more full and melodious than that of a guitar, and still more melancholy and soft than the lute.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe - It would be a unique delight to wait and watch for the melodious fragments in which her heart and soul came forth so directly and ingenuously.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - The melodious character of the earth, The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go, The justified mother of men.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
