 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 60by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 230 pages
...his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked to rapture by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch...rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before." It may be urged that Rogers exceeds in one direction as unjustifiably as Crabbe in the opposite. But... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - Quotations, English - 1904 - 920 pages
...the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. — Richter. Feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour a thousand melodies unheard before. — Rogers. Fiction3^ is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accomodating itself to... | |
 | Helen Philbrook Patten - English poetry - 1905 - 344 pages
...sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. William Shakespeare. MUSIC The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Samuel Rogers. MUSIC Griefs which the patient spirit oft may feel, Oh ! let me listen to thy songs... | |
 | Ida Prentice Whitcomb - Music - 1908 - 534 pages
...whose name are linked some of the most charming musical associations of the nineteenth century. ***** "The soul of music slumbers in the shell; Till waked...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before!" — Rogers. XVII THE SINGING-OPERA BELLINI, 1802-1835 — DONIZETTI, 1798-1848 ROSSINI'S operas were... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...deeper than all thought ; soul to souls can never teach what unto themselves was taught. — Crunch. t ti r\0 — Rogers. nobleness and baseness lies in the question, whether the feeling begins from below ot above.—... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...deeper than all thought ; soul to souls can never teach what unto themselves was taught. — CVancft. erkeley. There are two things, cheap and common enough when separated, but as co — Rogers. nobleness and baseness lies in the question, whether the feeling begins from below 01 above.... | |
 | P. Garrett - American literature - 1910 - 872 pages
...Bcope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose scope is the largest. Gnil Hamilton. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but lightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before. Rogers. Think that To-day shall never dawn again.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...betray. 3418 Moore : Irish Melodies. On Music. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before. There is a sadness in sweet sound That quickens tears. 3420 TB Aldrich: Two Songs from the Persian.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...1669 ' Goldsmith: Traveller. Line. 17 STEELING. 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. 1670 Rogers : Human Life The deepest ice which... | |
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