 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 pages
...constitute a strong link in the chain that binds the affections of their husbands to home. MUSIC. Mi"Slc the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...and madness please ; Our joys below it can improve RAMBLES IN THE PYRENEES.— No. III. THE DEFILE OF GAVERNIE. AT the hour of six in the morning Jacques... | |
 | Charlotte Adams - 1854 - 460 pages
...throb with emotions of the deepest love and gratitude. Osmond's religion was that of love. CHAPTER XIV. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease ; ***** Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. POPE. We get accustomed in an... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 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 powers incline their ear ; Borne on the swelling notes, our souls aspire, While solemn... | |
 | Henry Wyles Cushman - Digital images - 1855 - 810 pages
...small circumstance in the history of a family or an individual. For as the poet most truly says : " Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...below it can improve, And ante-date the bliss above." 817 VII RALPH, Rev.7 (1976) b. 7 Oct. 1792, at Goshen, m. Sophia Mosely of Westfield, 17 Oct. 1820.... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 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...pain to ease, And make despair and madness please. This the divine Cecilia found : And to her Maker's praise confined the sound. Of Orpheus now no more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...his tongue, Eurydice the woods, Eurjdice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. 7 Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...confined the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful choir, The immortal powers incline their ear ; Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire, While... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...his tongue, Eurjdice the woods, Eurjdice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung. 7 Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest...confined the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful choir, The immortal powers incline their ear ; Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire, While... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1856 - 642 pages
...only been felt by individuals, and religions assemblies, but has been dreaded upon the tented field. " Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain and ease, And make despair and madness please ; Our joys below it can improve, And anUdate the bliss... | |
 | David Williams - English literature - 1858 - 388 pages
...licence for her subjects to trade in his dominions, which continued till the death of Charles I. MUSIC. Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest...below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. POPS. Q. WHAT is music?—A. That science which teaches the nature and properties of sounds, and comprises... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1858 - 672 pages
...well as pleasure, it may always furnish to a well turned mind,) in the following words : — Music tho fiercest grief can charm And fate's severest rage...below, it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. And hence it may be said, especially of sacred and scriptural songs, the more mnsical, the more celestial.... | |
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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... 
