 | 1883 - 1056 pagine
...separating characters all fail in being absolute and diagnostic. HWS WORSLEY-BENISON. (To be concluded.) IT is the little rift within the lute That by and...music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all. The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit, That rotting inwards... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pagine
...— it admits of no exceptions. A single discrepancy with proved fact is sufficient to condemn it : " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and...music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all." It is scarcely worth while to examine seriously those more fanciful hypotheses by which the mind of... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1883 - 368 pagine
...make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." It is equally true that trifles mar perfection; — "It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute." The phrase " little sins," common though it be, is highly unscriptural and highly immoral. In the Bible... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 pagine
...cease sounding; to stop the noise or sound of; to make to cease. Silente that dreadful bell. Shak. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the mu&fc mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. Tennyson. (d) To still; to quiet; to restrain; to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pagine
...be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. ' It is the little rift within the lute, That by and...music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. ' The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little pitted speck in garner'd fruit, That rotting inward... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 pagine
...song to Merlin to encourage him to trust her. Singing of "unfaith" and its effects on love, she says, "It is the little rift within the lute,/ That by and...music mute,/ And ever widening slowly silence all" (II. 390-92). 277.17/273.2 BARRACLOUGH'S VOICE PRODUCTION This refers to a Dublin voice teacher; Thorn's... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1918 - 892 pagine
...importance, and however slight may be the objection to the enforcement of this particular legislation, it is " the little rift within the lute that by and...music mute, and ever widening slowly silence all." Austen G. Fox, of New York : Mr. President, what is it that has made useful and powerful the provisions... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 pagine
...powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. "It is the litde rift within the lute, [italics mine] That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. "The litde rift within the lover's lute, Or litde pitted speck in garner'd fruit, That rotting inward... | |
 | Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan - 1977 - 620 pagine
...Eliot, Cleveland, Shepard, Lyman Abbott especially, betray by their apologetic and circumspect utterance "the little rift within the lute That by and by will...music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all." In the Montgomery Advertiser, sent by you and marked with red ink, is your speech at the Tuskegee Conference.... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 pagine
...growing larger <this little rift it was that had widened to a now considerable breach— HG Wells) <it is the little rift within the lute, that by and by will make the music mute— Tennyson) <it was, I believe, the terrible Wars of Religion that made the fatal rift between religion... | |
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It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. 
