 | British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...A 1m. 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 living souls, have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound. What then am I ? Am I more senseless grown Than trees... | |
 | Arminianism - 1872 - 1200 pages
..." Music hath charms to soothe a 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." The allusion here is to Ovid's descriptien of Orpheus taming wild... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1824 - 378 pages
...and rest. The harps of Orpheus, Amphion, and Arion, charmed all nature with their powers : even . . Things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd By mAgic numbers and persuasive sounds, Music, divine music, besides the excellent powers it possesses... | |
 | Hygiene - 1831 - 410 pages
...to credit all that some of the ancients have affirmed respecting the moral influence of music ; nor that, " Things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sounds." an engine of corruption, is as absurd as it would... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - English drama - 1840 - 784 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - Bookbinders - 1840 - 782 pages
...Jl«. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Г te read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, Bj made numbers and persuasive sound. Wkai then am I ? Am I more senseless grown Ttan trees or flint... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 332 pages
...in value twenty per cent before the conclusion of the next day. CHAPTER III. ROYAL MUSIC. I've heard that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls have been informed, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. CONOREVE. WE read in story books, that we believe... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 978 pages
...in value twenty per cent before the conclusion of the next day. CHAPTER III. ROYAL MUSIC. I've heard that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls have been informed. By magic numbers and persuasive sound. CONQBEVE. WE read in story books, that we believe... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...readers:— 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. Dr. Johnson considered the description of the cathedral... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...EVE. 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. To find the faults, whose fine stands in record, And... | |
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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. 
