din quotes

   I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
   The Major-General's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

-1st Baron
  'The  Armada', in the Quarterly Magazine.

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.

- Sir Herbert Edward Read
  Quoted in Hoggart andJohnston, An Idea of Europe (1987), 'Pyramids and Planes'.

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

-William Wordsworth
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye',1.22^8.