 | A. Mātavaiyā - Fiction - 2005 - 390 pages
...direct ally of the Company. In return, he paid the English a subsidy of 4 lakh rupees a year. 151 . It is the little rift within the lute That by and...music mute And, ever widening, slowly silence all. (Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, line 388.) The relationship between Lyttelton and Clarinda within their... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 465 pages
...at a lewd picture, one hearing of an unclean story may begin the fatal corruption of mind and heart, "It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute. The little rift within the lover's lute Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit That rotting inward... | |
 | Lodi Nauta - Art - 2006 - 248 pages
...Orchardson to illustrate the move from the wedding's 'happy conversation' to a criminal adulterous context: 'It is the little rift within the lute / that by and by will make the music mute'. This looks like the story of a treasure by and by forgotten, of possibilities gradually closed; but... | |
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In love, if love be love, if love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. ' " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. 
