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• O Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
  -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- The Passions, Line 95...
• Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired. -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- The Passions, Line 10
• In hollow murmurs died away. -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- The Passions, Line 68
• T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.
  -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- The Passions, Line 28...
• In notes by distance made more sweet. -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- The Passions, Line 60
• The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.
  . . . . . Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set....
• Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book i, Line 1...
• Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• The rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Act ii, Sc. 1...