 ... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.  The Emerald - Page 2351806Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...livest Live well ; how long, or short, permit to Heaven : And now prepare thee for another sight. 555 He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon "Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unexpedient after meat, to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." VOL. III. H THOMAS MOORE. THIS Poet, whose lyrical effusions have so eminently distinguished him above... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." VOL. III. H 688668 THOMAS MOORE. THIS Poet, whose lyrical effusions have so eminently distinguished... | |
 | 1827 - 264 pages
...well ; how long, or short, permit to Heaven : 554 And now prepare thee for another sight. He looked, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some, were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard,... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...May we say with holy Joh, " All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change come." 556 He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; Jabal was die father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle, Gen. iv. 20. 585 - whence... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...livest Live well ; how long, or short, permit to Heaven : And now prepare thee for another sight. 555 He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard,... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 292 pages
...thou livest Live well ; how long, or short, permit to Heaven : And now prepare thee for another sight. He look'd and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue; hy some were herds Of cattle grazing; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 496 pages
...Michael to him replied.' Newton. 553 hate] Martial, lib. x. ' Summum nee metuas diem, nee optes.' Newton. He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing : others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime Was heard, of... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1834 - 542 pages
...martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions." To the literary man, especially one who is to lead a more retired sort of life, music is a source of... | |
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