Blood hath been shed ere now i' the olden time, And there an end; but now they rise again, Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 76. 11 Music tells no truths. BAILEY-Festus. Sc. A Village Feast. 12 Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. J. C. BAMPFYLDE-Sonnet. 13 (See also BRAMSTON) If music and sweet poetry agree. BARNFIELD 14 Sonnet. Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar. THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY-Welcome Me Home. 15 I'm saddest when I sing. THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY-You think I have a merry heart. 16 (See also ARTEMUS WARD) God is its author, and not man; he laid 17 The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush Let fancy float on this æolian breath. 18 "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. JAMES BRAMSTON-Man of Taste. First line quoted from PRIOR. 19 (See also BAMPFYLDE, CONGREVE, PRIOR) And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. II. Sec. IX. Use of the phrase "Music of the Spheres" given by BISHOP MARTIN FOTHERBY-Athconastrix. P. 315. (Ed. 1622) Said by BISHOP JOHN WILKINSDiscovery of a New World. I. 42. (Ed. 1694) (See also BUTLER, BYRON, COWLEY, JOB, MILTON, MONTAIGNE, MOORE) 20 Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, E. B. BROWNING-A Musical Instrument. 21 Her voice, the music of the spheres, 1 MOUTH Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. 10 for Magistrates. (1587) MALONE suggests that the Latin words appeared in the old Latin play by RICHARD EEDES-Epilogus Cæsaris Interfecti, given at Christ Church Oxford. (1582) HERRICK-The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. of Pearls. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. GEO. CHAPMAN-The Widow's Tears. Act V. Sc. IV. 11 Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. CHAUCER Canterbury Tales. The Nonnes Preestes Tale. L. 15,058. 12 Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. DRYDEN-The Cock and the Fox. L. 285. 13 Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES-Physiology of Common Life. Ch. XII. 14 Absolutism tempered by assassination. COUNT MÜNSTER, Hanoverian envoy at St. Petersburg, writing of the Russian Consti tution. 15 Neque enim lex est æquior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. ÖVID-Ars Amatoria. I. 655. 16 One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.-Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren? BISHOP PORTEUS-Death. L. 154. (See also YOUNG) 17 Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 27. 18 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 622. 19 He took my father grossly, full of bread; heaven? Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 80. 20 No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize. Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 128. 21 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 254. 1 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incardine, Macbeth. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 60. 2 Blood hath been shed ere now i' the olden time, And there an end; but now they rise again, Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 76. 16 (See also ARTEMUS WARD) God is its author, and not man; he laid 17 The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush That filters through the forest, or the gush 18 "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. JAMES BRAMSTON-Man of Taste. First line quoted from PRIOR. 19 (See also BAMPFYLDE, CONGREVE, PRIOR) And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. II. Sec. IX. Use of the phrase "Music of the Spheres" given by BISHOP MARTIN FOTHERBY-Athconastrix. P. 315. (Ed. 1622) Said by BISHOP JOHN WILKINS— Discovery of a New World. I. 42. (Ed. 1694) (See also BUTLER, BYRON, COWLEY, JOB, MILTON, MONTAIGNE, MOORE) 20 Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, As a reed with the reeds of the river. E. B. BROWNING A Musical Instrument. 21 Her voice, the music of the spheres, 13 Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Flame arose, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, COWLEY-Davideis. Bk. I. P. 13. (1668) 14 I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. LAMB-A Chapter on Ears. 15 A velvet flute-note fell down pleasantly, And clarified and glorified The solemn spaces where the shadows bide. Who, through long days of labor, LONGFELLOW-The Day is Done. St. 8. 23 Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. MILTON-Arcades. L. 68. 24 Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? MILTON-Areopagitica. 25 Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? MILTON-Comus. L. 244. |