 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 lehte
...MUSIC "USIC has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read, that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound. R. CONGREVE 232 SUICIDE '"THE term of life is limited,... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 lehte
...— " Music has charms to sootho a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been informed, By magic numbers and persuasive sound." — Confrere's Ifottrninp Bridt. occasion, the -well-known... | |
 | 1867 - 592 lehte
...to the mythology of Paganism in describing t'ic elder and more gentle of the oTrp.-ing of Fire an, I Vapour, had they but dreamed of the strong attractive...proving — That things inanimate have moved, And, :\» with living Boule, 1m vc been inform'J By numbers and persuasive sound. In a recent lecture, delivered... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 lehte
...Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak. I 've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd By magic numbers, and persuasive sound. Congrcve. TRAGEDY AND COMEDY. Fellows both, both twins, but so... | |
 | 1870 - 494 lehte
..." Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak ; I've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sounds." Congreve's " Mourning Bride" i., 1. " Timotheus,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 lehte
...Almeria says, to soothe a savage breast, but to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak ; and she has read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound. Waller rationalizes much in the style of the modern... | |
 | Virgil - 1871 - 376 lehte
...Purcell. " Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound." Congreve, 'I he Mourning Bride, I. i. 1-5. Hear these,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 lehte
...Almeria says, to soothe a savage breast, but to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak ; and she has read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound. Waller rationalizes much in the style of the modern... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 lehte
...Aim. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved. And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. What then am I ? Am I more senseless grown Than trees or flint... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 lehte
...Passions. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, And as with living souls have been inform'd By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 4 CONGREVE. The example of the heav'nly lark, Thy fellow-pout,... | |
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been informed, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 
