The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — Pour A thousand melodies unheard before... Poems - Page 92by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1873 - 584 pages
...Those are very pretty and graceful lines of the poet Rogers, in which he describes sympathy : — " The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before." But we feel sure the poet would agree with us that the principle is not of universal application, and... | |
| John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...statue waiting for rescue from a stony prison, has its analogy in music: j. 554 ROGERS, CAMPBELL iv The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell. I Samuel Rogers was a fine man, an elegant scholar, and a person of high poetic ambition. His many... | |
| James M. Trotter - African American composers - 1878 - 560 pages
...these and others of the noble masters of harmony is beautifully embodied in the lines of Rogers : — " The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell." But this far-reaching art, with all its difficult forms to awaken and enchain the interest, and to... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Still subject, — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth mid sorrow of his sorrow ! p Tlie oaths, and bearded like the pard ; Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Ami feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! SAMUEL... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 476 pages
...be heaven compared to what it is if all our words and actions were regulated by the law of love. As the soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the Master's spell, So .feeling hearts, touch them but lightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before. The poor are rich... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...and cannot cease to flow. Byron, Parisina, 20. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts — touch them but lightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before. Rogers, Haman Life. FEET — see Dancing. Her... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...men ; Schooled and trained up to wisdom from his birth, God's noblest work — His image upon earth ! Feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Envying no more the young their energies Than they an old man when his words are wise. When on his... | |
| John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1886 - 416 pages
...touch ' must call such times feelingly to remembrance. Is it Rogers that somewhere or another says — The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked...but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before ? Haunts of my childhood, I must first forget myself or ever I can forget you ! Dum memor ipse mei,... | |
| Home economics - 1888 - 654 pages
...to write about, For if there is no rhyme within, there'll be no rhyme without. —Nellie K. Kellogg. THE soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before. — Rogers. Original in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. BISCUITS AND BREAKFASTS. [This series of papers is Original... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1889 - 298 pages
...louder still Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on." l As touching the human heart — 1 Cowper. " The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before." l As an education — " I have sent books and music there, and all Those instruments with which high... | |
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