“When did he cross that line from a person to a textile shrine?”
Ralston Bowles (1952) American musician
From the song "Velvet Elvis" on the album The Grand Rapids Collection (2005)
“When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue,
From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line,
And Muse apostate (infamy to song!)
Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.”
The Judgment of Paris (1765), stanza 109.
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Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher 1735–1803Related quotes
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Source: Much Ado About Nothing
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Odes, XLII. (XL.), 11.
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Love's Voice (c.1935–1939)
Context: Such fable ours! However sweet,
That earlier hope had, if fulfilled,
Been but child's pap and toothless meat
— And meaning blunt and deed unwilled,
And we but motes that dance in light
And in such light gleam like the core
Of light, but lightless, are in right
Blind dust that fouls the unswept floor
For, no: not faith by fable lives,
But from the faith the fable springs
— It never is the song that gives
Tongue life, it is the tongue that sings;
And sings the song. Then, let the act
Speak, it is the unbetrayable
Command, if music, let the fact
Make music's motion; us, the fable.
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Hymn, stanza 19, line 173
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)
Context: To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend
Wine, true begetter of all arts that be;
Wine, privilege of the completely free;
Wine the recorder; wine the sagely strong;
Wine, bright avenger of sly-dealing wrong,
Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!
“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert to Eliza
