 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 oldal
...liv'st Live well ; how long, or short, permit to Heaven \ i ii I now prepare thee for another sight" h, that never-cloy'd desire, Which, selfish joy disdaining, seeks alone Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 oldal
...martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions." The like also would not be inexpedient after meat, to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 oldal
...martial, or civil ditties ; which if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 oldal
...martial, or civil ditties ; which if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 630 oldal
...thou liv'gt Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n: And now prepare thee for another sight. Be look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing : ' others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime Was heard,... | |
 | 1888 - 912 oldal
...reasonable.'1 — MARTIN LUTHER. " If wise men and prophets are not out, Music has a great power over the dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions." — MILTON, Tractate on Education. IN the preceding articles we have been considering the work of those... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 464 oldal
...martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unexpedient after meat, to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 oldal
...school, expressly because, "if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, it has a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions." I had intended to make many apologies for speaking to you upon a subject very unlike those with which... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 oldal
...harmonies of music, . . . which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions." In the " Spirit of Laws " we find a fuller statement. " That judicious writer, Polybius," says Montesquieu,... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 406 oldal
...Live well ; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. And now prepare thee for another sight." He looked, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime Was heard, of... | |
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... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. 
