 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...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 - Sunday school teachers - 1870 - 226 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...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 o:m soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve. And antedate... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | James M. Trotter - African American composers - 1878 - 560 pages
...drops her snakes ; Intestine war no more our passions wage ; And giddy factions bear away their rage. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above." APPENDIX. MUSIC. I PREFACE TO THE MCSIC. IT is deemed necessary to offer a few words of explanation... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1880 - 882 pages
...many of the sorrowful have not blessed its consoling power ! Music the fiercest griefs can charm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please. And how subduing its influence — Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage But music for the... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...tongue, Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountain« rung. VII. Th' immortal pow'is incline their ear; Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire, While solemn airs... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...tongue , Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks, and hollow mountains rung. -«r Music the fiercest grief can charm And fate's severest...the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful choir, The immortal powers incline their... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...tongue, Eurydice the woods, — Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And ante date the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confined the sound.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...soul is press'd with cares, Exalts her in enliv'ning airs. Pope, St. Cecilia's Day. Music the fiereest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to case, And make despair and madness please ; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.... | |
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise... 
