| Penny readings - 1867 - 268 Seiten
...his tongue : Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can. charm, And Fate's severest...the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th' immortal pow'rs incline their ear : Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire, While solemn airs improve... | |
| 1867 - 910 Seiten
...Pope's works, we find many a thought upon music. In his Ode to St. Cecilia we read the following : — " Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...below it can improve. And antedate the bliss above ! " Campbell's Julia sang to Theodoric : — " And brought Those trains before him of luxuriant thought,... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...; Or, when the soul is press'd with cares, Exalts her in enliv'ning airs. Pope, St. Cecilia't Day. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. Pope, St. Cecilia's Day. Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach,... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 Seiten
...tongue ; Eurydice the woods, 115 Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain to ease, 120 And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 628 Seiten
...his tongue ; Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain to ease, 120 And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 Seiten
...his tongue : Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Enrydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia foun 1, And to her Maker's praise confined the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire,... | |
| John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 Seiten
...MILTON'S Comus. Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it in Elysium. MILTON'S C'omua Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. POM. Music resembles poetry ; in each Are numerous graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 580 Seiten
...tongue, Eurydice the woods, 115 Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks, and hollow mountains rung. VII. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain to ease, 120 And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.... | |
| E. D. Jones - 1870 - 226 Seiten
...Attentive, WORSHIPER, Inquiring. MODEL Preparation, Love for God's house. CHAPTER XXVIII. Music. " Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above." j]HE power and influence of music all human beings are willing to acknowledge. It is one of the fairest... | |
| Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 Seiten
...of music over the passions, in terms which bear much resemblance to those of Milton in his epigram : Music the fiercest grief can charm. And fate's severest rage disarm : Music cnn soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve. And antedate... | |
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