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But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er the hill and far away, Despising doleful dumps. - Unattributed Author, Distracted Jockey's Lamentation--Pills to Purge Melancholy, found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England" by Halliwell Phillips Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young; Bug all the tune that he could play Was "Over the hills and far away." - Unattributed Author, Distracted Jockey's Lamentation--Pills to Purge Melancholy, found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England" by Halliwell Phillips All of heaven we have below. - Joseph Addison Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. - Joseph Addison Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. - Joseph Addison Music when thus applied raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. - Joseph Addison Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. - Joseph Addison Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. - Joseph Addison, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (st. 4) [T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment. - Conrad Potter Aiken (used pseudonym Samuel Jeake, Jr.), at a musical concert There is a sadness in sweet sound That quickens tears. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. - John Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 512) If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. - Louis Armstrong Never play a thing the same way twice. - Louis Armstrong The ordered music of the marching orbs. - Sir Edwin Arnold That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged Eastward and westward, making bright the night. - Sir Edwin Arnold, Light of Asia (bk. IV, l. 418) Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life. - Berthold Auerbach Tunes and airs have in themselves some affinity with the affections,--as merry tunes, doleful tunes, solemn tunes, tunes inclining men's minds to pity, warlike tunes,--so that it is no marvel if they alter the spirits, considering that tunes have a predisposition to the motion of the spirits. - Francis Bacon Music tells no truths. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Village Feast) Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. - Mikhail Bakunin, about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. - John Codrington Bampfylde, Sonnet in Praise of Delia If music and sweet poetry agree. - Richard Barnfield, Sonnet Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar. - Thomas Haynes Bayly (Bayley), Welcome Me Home I'm saddest when I sing. - Thomas Haynes Bayly (Bayley), You think I have a merry heart Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. - James Beattie Displaying page 1 of 13 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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