Date: 1600
"Such harmony is in immortal souls, /But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1603
"Now see that noble and most sovereign reason / Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1676
"Music so softens and disarms the mind."
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Date: 1686
"My Guts are grumbling a kind of Tune, Like the Base Pipes of an Organ: I am starv'd into a Substance so thin, that my Body is transparent; you may see my heart, and the appurtenances, hang up here in its mortal Closet, as easily as a Candle in a Lanthorn."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)