 | Anna (Dunphy) comtesse de Brémont, Comtesse Anna de Brémont - Composers - 1892 - 276 pages
...VIRTUOSI WORLD OF MUSIC BY ANNA, COMTESSE DE BRE'MONT THE GREAT VIRTUOSI ' Music /ins charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak ; I've read that things inanimate have moved, A nd as with living souls have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound," Jiefo fgorft... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid ! COLLINS : The Passions. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that thmgs inanimate have moved, And as with living souls have been inform'd By magic numbers and persuasive... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...d around her magic cell. v. COLLINS— The Passions. LI MUSIC. MUSIC 405 Music has charms to sooth rchs seldom sigh in vain. t. SCOTT — Marmion. Canto V. St. 9. 0 Richard ! 0 my king ! The u moved, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. a. CONGREVE... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.— EMERSON. Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — CONGREVE. There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...Murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh." SHAKESPEARE. Othello (Othello), Act V., Sc. II. " Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften...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." CONGREVE.... | |
 | Quotations - 1897 - 308 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. — Shakspere. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act HI., Sc. II. Music hath charmes to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend...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. — Congreve.... | |
 | Horace - Latin language - 1898 - 538 pages
...\ sistat. 7. temere: blindly, in mad rout; 2. 11. 14. 8. Orphea : a symbol of the charms of music ' to soothe a savage breast, | To soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.' Cf. Simon. fr. 40; Aeschyl. Ag. 1629; Eurip. Bacchae, 562; Iph. Aul. 1211, etc. ; Anth. Pal. 7. 8;... | |
 | Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...\ sistat. 1. temere: blindlg, in mad rout; 2. 11. 14. 8. Orphea : a symbol of the charms of music ' to soothe a savage breast, | To soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.' Cf. Simon. fr. 40 ; Aeschyl. Ag. 1629 ; Eurip. Bacchae, 562 ; Iph. Aul. 1211, etc.; Anth. Pal. 7. 8;... | |
 | William John Clarke Miller - Bird watching - 1899 - 248 pages
...is said to be the most frequently cited in our language, though usually in an incorrect form : — " Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." It was fitting that these oft-cited lines in praise of music should have been written by a native of... | |
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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. 
