Soothe Quotes
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Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
thomas gray— Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 41-4 (1751)
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
william congreve— 1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act1, sc.1.
Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall, shall linger near.
— A Wish (1834), lines 1-4.
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
thomas gray— St. 11. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith— 1766 The Vicar of Wakefield, ch.29.
Theyare only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger— 1626 The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,And finds too late that men betray,What charm can soothe her melancholy?What art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith— Ch. 29, Song, st. 1.
If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.
aldous huxley— “Silence is Golden,” p. 59
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
robert jordan— Moiraine Damodred to Rand al'Thor
Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be, And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!
rudyard kipling— The Prairie, Stanza 5.
Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— St. 4 (The Day is Done (1845))
In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps, That snores when you pick it up. If the ghost cries, they carry it To their lips and soothe it to sleep With sounds. And yet, they wake it up Deliberately, by tickling with a finger.
craig raine— "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home", line 19.
O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
walter scott— Canto V, stanza 18.
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my car; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, A Wish.
This is the charm, by sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold: Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste.
— Henry Kirk White, Clifton Grove, line 130.
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger— Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor (1626), Act I, scene i.
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
— Anna Laetitia Waring, Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations (1850), p. 2.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars : The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book IX.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles, Canto V, Stanza 18.
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, The Village, Book I
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
william congreve— William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act I, scene 1.
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
james bramston— James Bramston, Man of Taste, first line quoted from Prior.
