 | Thomas Moore - Songs, Irish - 1874 - 160 pages
...breath. * " Where the Spirit .of the Lord is, there is liberty." — St Paul, 2 Corinthians, iii. 17. Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before...betray ! IT IS NOT THE TEAR AT THIS MOMENT SHED.* IT is not the tear at this moment shed, When the cold turf has just been laid o'er him, That can tell... | |
 | Tom (silent, fict. name.) - 1874 - 224 pages
...to your father, and I hope he won't spare that young blackleg." CHAPTER XVIII. PICTURES AND MUSIO. " Music ! oh how faint, how weak, Language fades before...breathe her soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may pain, Love's are e'en more false than they; Oh ! 'tis only music's strain, Can sweetly soothe and not... | |
 | Ursula (pseud.) - 1874 - 370 pages
...his match. Gwen never knew what fear or yielding meant from the day she was born." CHAPTER XVIII. " Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before...ever speak When thou canst breathe her soul so well V MOORE. " I'll play the chorus ; and as our modern Greeks Run through our code of expletics sublime,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...more apt for mournful things. MlLTON : The Passion. Music ! Oh, how faint, how weak, Language fails before thy spell ! Why should feeling ever speak,...Friendship's balmy words may feign, — Love's are e'en more false than they: — Oh ! 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray ! MOORE.... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - Women - 1876 - 390 pages
...speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that "— . 20 " Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before...soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign — Lome's are even more false than they ; Oh ! 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly soothe and not... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 pages
...thoughts that long have slept; Kindling former smiles again In faded eyes that long have wept. ****** Music, oh how faint, how weak, Language fades before...well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are e'en more false than they, Oh ! 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly soothe and not betray." T. MOORE.... | |
 | Poets - 1877 - 300 pages
...evening blushes ere they fade ! On a Portrait. Francis ВапЪу, ABA, Irish Marine Painter, 1793. 17. Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before...ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well Î Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are even more false than they ; Oh ! 'tis only Music's... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - Biography of Europe - 1877 - 378 pages
...long have slept; Kindling former smiles again In faded eyes that long have wept. • •••'• Music, oh how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should feeling over speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are... | |
 | lady Emma Carolina Wood, Lady Wood - 1879 - 306 pages
...she should have such surroundings." CHAPTER XIX. " Friendship balmy words may feign, Some are e'en more false than they. Oh ! 'tis only music's strain Can sweetly soothe and not betray. " SIR ATHELINE called on Helena, and advanced with what Leigh Hunt called " an affectation of a bright-eyed... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 pages
...flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath. Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before...Music's strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray ! * "Where the Spirit of the. Lord i% there is liberty. " —St Paul, 2 Conn thians, Ui. 17. „ IT... | |
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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... 
