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«The willow tree plays the water like a harp.»
Author: Ramon Gomez de la Serna
(Writer)
| Keywords:
harp, harping, plays, The Willows, willow, willows, willow tree
«The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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burdened, caution, conservatism, conserve, conserved, conserves, conserving, dealt, everlastingly, excessive, fogies, fogy, grandfathers, harp, harping, nevertheless, ossified, ossify, secondhand
«Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.»
«The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.»
«Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! / And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.»
«Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.»
«The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Medicine,
Poetry
| Keywords:
conjoin, conjoined, curious, harp, harping, Office of, poets, The Office, the Poets, tune
«The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, / In the ranks of death you'll find him; / His father's sword he has girded on, / And his wild harp slung behind him.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
girded, harp, ranks, slung, The Minstrel
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