 | 1866 - 320 Seiten
...11. Sane 1. Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak ; I 've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with...been inform'd, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. The Mourning Bride. Act I. Scene I. * It is very unusual to hear this line correctly used. " When Greek... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1868 - 302 Seiten
...Orpheus and Eurydice will spring into being, and yet the myths would be so far kindred as proving — That things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd By numbers and persuasive sound. In a recent lecture, delivered by Professor Tyndall at the Royal Institution,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak ; I've read that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. Congreve, Muurnini/ Bride, I. 1. Music's force can tame the furious beast ; Can make the wolf or foaming boar... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 Seiten
...Music. 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...been inform'd By magic numbers, and persuasive sound. Congrcve. TRAGEDY AND COMEDY. Fellows both, both twins, but so unlike As birth to death, wedding to... | |
 | 1870 - 494 Seiten
...(Lytton). (16) " 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,... | |
 | Virgil - 1871 - 376 Seiten
...Mr. 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 - 1871 - 356 Seiten
...Congreve's 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 Seiten
...Congreve's 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... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 Seiten
...savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak. I 've read that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd By magic numbers, and persuasive sound. Congreve. MISFORTUNES. When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 Seiten
...eûmes forward. 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...been inform'd, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. What then am I ? Am I more senseless grown Than trees or flint ? О force of constant woe ! 'Tie not... | |
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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. 
