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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast

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  1. Music has the power to enchant even the roughest of people. This proverb comes from the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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The line "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast," is from Congreve's Mourning Bride, Act I. Sc.

From Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast?

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward

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