Music. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Music


There is a sadness in sweet sound That quickens tears. Aldrich.—Two Songs from the Persian.	1
Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. Henry Ward Beecher.—Sermons, “Plymouth Pulpit,” Second Series: The Right and the Wrong Way of Giving Pleasure.	2
The deep-toned music thundered down the nave Gathering the thankfulness of every soul Into itself, and swept aloft of God. Samuel W. Duffield.—Warp and Woof: Leyden.	3
Music may be divine, but its living is its dying. It gushes and is drunk up by the thirsty silences. J. G. Holland.—Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects: Art and Life.	4
Sweet Music! sacred tongue of God. Charles G. Leland.—The Music-Lesson of Confucius.	5
Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.—The Poet and the Poem.	6
Music waves eternal wands,— Enchantress of the souls of mortals. Stedman.—Pan in Wall Street, Stanza 10.	7
It flowed like liquid pearl through golden cells, It jangles like a string of golden bells, It trembled like a wind in golden strings, It dropped and rolled away in golden rings, Then it divided and became a shout, That Echo chased about, However wild and fleet, Until it trod upon its heels with flying feet. Stoddard.—To a Celebrated Singer.	8