 | American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...Like hedgehogs dressed in lace You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme,...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. And silence, like a poultice, To heal the blows of sound ; It cannot be, — it is — it is, — A... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...with those dreadful urs. Ibid. You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme,...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. The Music- Grinders. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 pages
...songs seem to have been expressly calculated, like " the music-grinders " of Holmes, — " To pluck the eyes of sentiment, And dock the tail of rhyme,...the voice of melody, And break the legs of time." They were sworn enemies of the Muses ; haters of stage-play literature, profane songs, and wanton sonnets... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...Like hedgehogs dressed in lace. You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody, And break ^he legs of Time. But hark ! the air again is still, The music all is ground, And silence, like a poultice,... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...You sit in speechless agony, You think they are crusaders, sent From some iufernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme,...voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. But hark 1 the air again is still, The music all is ground, And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...agony, Until your ear is numb. 7. You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme,...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. 8. But hark ! the air again is still, The music all is ground, And silence, like a poultice, comes... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...with those dreadful urs. nid. You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme,...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. The Music-Grinileirs. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. AND what is so rare as a day in June ? -^*- Then, if ever,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...agony, until you ear is numb, listening in your own despite to performers whose mission it seemingly is "to crack the voice of Melody, and break the legs of Time ; " — after thus picturing the performers and the performances he continues — " But hark ! the... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Music - 1872 - 348 pages
...agony, until you ear is numb, listening in your own despite to performers whose mission it seemingly is "to .crack the voice of Melody, and break the legs of Time ; " — after thus picturing the performers and the performances he continues — " But hark ! the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...in lace. The Musie-Grinders. You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme,...crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. Ibid. And, since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. The Height of the Ridieulous. Yes, child... | |
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You think they are crusaders, sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. 
