 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...  The Rhythm of Life - Page 262by Charles Brodie Patterson - 1915 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...antedate the blifs above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her maker's praife confin'd die found. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire* Th' immortal pow'rs incline their ear; Born on the fweUing notes eur fouls afpire. While folemn airs improve the facred fire; And angels lean... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...; Eurydice the woods, ir$ Eurvdice the floods, Euoydice 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, i2o And make despair and madness please ; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 236 pages
...the blifs above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praife confin'd the found. ' 115 When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th' immortal pow'rs incline their ear ; Bornt on the fwelling notes our fouls afpire, \Vhile folemn airs improve the facred fire, And angels... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...tongue ; Eurydice the woods, us 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.... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...tongue ; V Eurydice the woods , Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...the sound. "When the full organ joins the tuneful choir, Th' immortal pow'rs incline their ear ; Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire , "While... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...over the passions, which may, perhaps, be reckoned a blameable tautology ; especially as these lines, Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...pain to ease, And make despair and madness please ; Pi •i: . ., .1* ii • •;.i.. . i.... . are inferior, I am afraid, to the former on the same... | |
 | 1806 - 452 pages
...the amateurs, that we arc deprived of this species of dramatic delight, which the poet says «-—— The fiercest grief can charm, " And fate's severest...soften pain to ease, " And make despair and madness cea\e." The Mr, Stephens I mentioned hefore has, ou some account, ahdicated, Mr. Phillips, an estahlished... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...rocks and hollow mountains rung. Music the fiercest grief can charm. And fate's severest rage disarm j Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : OUT joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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...sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, The' immortal pow'rs incline their ear ; Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire, While solemn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...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...ease, "" And make despair and madness please: Our joys helow it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her maker's... | |
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