I sit, and play with similes. WORDSWORTH, To the Daisy. He sings psalms to hornpipes. Our whole life is like a play. Winter's Tale. iv, 3, 1. 46. BEN JONSON, Discoveries de Vita Humana. Thy voice is a celestial melody. LONGFELLOW, Masque of Pandora. Pt. V. The lively Shadow-World of Song. SCHILLER, The Artists. 66 Come, and I will play with thee!" DE VERE, Song-When I Was Young. LONGFELLOW, Hiawatha. Pt. VI, 1. 21. A character dead at every word. SHERIDAN, School for Scandal. ii, 2. The still, sad music of humanity. WORDSWORTH, Poems of Imagination. xxvi. I know a trick worth two of that. King Henry IV. Pt. I, ii, 1. Listen to that song, and learn it! JOHN LOGAN (attributed to), Danish Ode. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Satyricon. Almost the whole world are players. A thousand melodies unheard before. ROGERS, Human Life. For discords make the sweetest airs. Merely to come in, sir, they go out ! He coude songes make, and wel endite. CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales. Pro. All that we ask is but a patient ear. It will discourse most eloquent music. POPE, Satires. iii. Hamlet. iii, 2, 1. 374. Come, give us a taste of your quality. Good at a fight, but better at a play. Hamlet. ii, 2. On a cast of Sheridan's hand. Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. SHELLEY, To Wordsworth. 1. 12. A cursed critic as e'er damned a play. DRYDEN, Epilogue to Secret Love. In notes by distance made more sweet. COLLINS, The Passions. 1. 60. If music be the food of love, play on. Twelfth Night. i, 1. Song forbids victorious deeds to die. SCHILLER, The Artists. Play on, play on; I am with you there. NATH'L P. WILLIS, Saturday Afternoon. Women and music should never be dated. GOLDSMITH, She Stoops to Conquer. iii, 1. Now airs antique and medieval fill me! WHITMAN, Music of the Storm. And hears thy stormy music in the drum! CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. King Henry IV. Pt. I, iii, 5. Sing,-though I shall never hear thee. CHARLES WOLFE, Song. |