Famous quotes containing the words melody and/or line:
“Hetty [Burneys sister] set down to the harpsichord and sung ... we departed this life of anguish and misery, and rested our weary souls in the Elysian fieldmy papas studythere, freed from the noise and bustle of the world enjoyed the harmony of chatteringand the melody of music!”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)