 | Biography - 1799 - 614 pages
...but his favourite study and .amusement was that enchanting science, whose dulcet charms have power " To soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak." i And, though very young and self -tang Jit, be was wqll known, and much admired in the musical world... | |
 | Great Britain - 1817 - 694 pages
...but his favourite study and amusement was that enchanting science, whose dulcet charms have power , " To soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak." And, though very young and self-taught, he was well known, and much admired in the musical world for... | |
 | Great Britain - 1817 - 630 pages
...but his favourite study and amusement was that enchanting science, whose dulcet charms have power " To soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak." And, though very young and self-taught, he was well known, and much admired in the musical world for... | |
 | Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...can charm !' ' Music has charms to bend the knotted oak' — no, that is not right — ' Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak !' and again — ' The man that hath no music in himself, and is not charmed with concord of sweet... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1824 - 190 pages
...can be more injurious, or more opposed to the example of Christ and his Apostles. I have been lead to recommend music, as I found that of the articles...breast, To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak ! Yet when and where has it been tried as an auxiliary in the work of civilization ? CHAPTER X. BEMONSTBANCES... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...can be more injurious, or more oppcr. sed to the example of Christ and his Apostles. I have been lead to recommend music, as I found that of the articles...Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soft™ rocks, and bend the knotted oak ! Yet when and where has it been tried as an auxiliary in the... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indians of North America - 1824 - 480 pages
...valuable articles. Is there any sentence more common than the following words of the poet ? JMusic hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften...and bend the knotted oak ! CHAPTER X. REMONSTRANCES OP THE INDIANS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1790. IT is no less curious than lamentable... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...ear And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Milton's Comus. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak. Congreve's Mourning Bride. I'll think no more on't. ' Give me some music ; look that it be sad. Dryden.... | |
 | Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 pages
...Where God erects a House of Prayer The Devil is sure to buiM a Chapel there. PROBATIONARY LINES "Mosic hath charms to soothe the savage breast, " To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak." THE MOURNING BRIDE. 'Mid War's alarms, and foul domestic strife, And the dire conflicts of a toilsome... | |
 | Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 1004 pages
...House of Prayer The Devil is sure to build a Chapel there. PROBATIONARY LINES Ju Uraiee of fgarnump. " Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, " To soften rocks, and bead the knotted oak." THE MOt'HMNO BRIDE. 'Mid War's alarms, and foul domestic strife, And the dire... | |
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Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and rend the knotted oak : and, therefore, will we try the effect of it upon his senses. 
