 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 310 pages
...breath ! * " Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Ijb•ly.—St, Paul, 2 Corinthians, iii. 17. Music ! — oh ! how faint, how weak, Language fades...thy spell ! Why Should feeling ever speak, When thou can breathe her soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are ev'n more false than... | |
 | Hyde NUGENT - 1827 - 314 pages
...mind, in cruel truth : well might she say, A ' 'u; ' '*" • . f • M jl- • w •>! ;•"< ' - " Friendship's balmy words may feign ; Love's are ev'n more false than they. At the conclusion of his last fantasia, as it may be called, Horace, tired of music for the time, rambled... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1828 - 232 pages
...heard in happier hours ; Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath ! III. Music!— oh ! how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should feeling ever... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...heard in happier hours. Fill'd with balm the gale sighs on, Though the (lowers have sunk in death; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives...before thy spell! Why should feeling; ever speak, When lliou canst breathe her soul so well 1 Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are even more false... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...hours. r ill'd with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure'» dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath ! Music! oh! how faint, how weak, Language fade« before thy spell! Why should feeling ever speak, When thou r.intt breathe her soul so welt Ï... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 pages
...was heard in happier hours. Filled with balm, the gale sighs on, When the flowers have sunk in death, So when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in music's breath." Again, in speaking of the pains of memory, he says, " When I remember all The friends so link'd together,... | |
 | 1832 - 440 pages
...feelings, and win the soul to the sympathies of gentle life. As a bard of social feelings has said — Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before...soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Loves are e'en more false than they ; Oh 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...the sympathies of gentle life. As a bard of social feelings has said — Music ! oh, bow faint, bow weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should...soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Loves are e'en more false than they; Oh 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...heard in happier hours. Fill'd with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives...how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! 1 " Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' St. Paul, 2 Corintliian«, iii. 17. Why should... | |
 | Edward Thompson - 1837 - 778 pages
...heard in happier hours. Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death : So when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives...well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are e'en more false than they ; OJi ! 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly sooth, and not betray 1 ' '... | |
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Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign. Love's are even more false than they ; Oh ! 'tis only Music's strain Can sweetly... 
