 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5491819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...happiness, to hours of ease, Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. How oft her eyes read his ; { ] ,M:m ~pι ӑ9d and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...happiness, to hours of ease, Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. How oft her eyes read his; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts...borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow. ROGERS. My wife, the kindest, dearest, and the truest That ever wore the name. Ro\VE. Fye! fye! unknit... | |
 | Orange blossoms - 1878 - 376 pages
...please, How oft her eyes read his ; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined j Still subject — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth...The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts— touch them tut rightly— pour & thousand... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...gold over every hearth, that — ' The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts, touch...rightly, pour A thousand melodies, unheard before.' As we proceed from love and marriage to the closing scene, the death-bed, our admiration is still,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. How oft her eves read his : her gentle mind To till he subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or mid sorrow of his sorrow ! p Tlie soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...— not dead, but gone before. Ib. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts — touch...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before. R. The very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1873 - 584 pages
...which he describes sympathy : — " The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts, touch...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...have only space for the following : — The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts, touch...but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. The good... | |
 | Charles H. Kent - Conduct of life - 1881 - 144 pages
...happiness, to hours of ease, Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. How ofi her eyes read his; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts...watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow of hie sorrow! The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the masters spell, And... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...soothe, and not betray. Thas. Moore. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts — touch...rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before. Rogers, Haman Life. Musie, the tender child of rudest times, The gentle native of all lands and climes... | |
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