De Libris
Subtitle: Prose and Verse
Publisher: Echo Library
Published: September 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781406861617
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; General; Literary Criticism : General; Poetry / General; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: Were you to inquire respectfully of the infallible critic (if such indeed there be!) for the source of the aphorism, "Music has charms to soothe a savage beast," he would probably "down" you contemptuously in the Johnsonian fashion by replying that you had "just enough of learning to misquote";-that the last word was notoriously "breast" and not "beast";-and that the line, as Macaulay's, and every Board School-boy besides must be abundantly aware, is to be found in Congreve's tragedy of The Mourning Bride.