Music has charms to sooth the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve Quotes
She once used me with that insolence that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied ’em, and got ’em by rote. The catalogue was so large that I was not without hopes, one day or other, to hate her heartily.
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| Birth: | 24th January, 1670 |
| Death: | 19th January, 1729 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Playwriter |
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