Excerpt from The European Magazine and London Review, Vol. 73: Containing Portraits and Views; Biography, Anecdotes, Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, and Amusements of the Age; Including State and Parliamentary Papers, Parliamentary Journal, and London Gazettes; From January to June, 1818
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm: Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please: Of Orpheus now no more let Poets tell, T o bright Cecilia greater power is given His numbers raised a shade from Hell, Her's lift the soul to Heaven! Pope.
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