 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 страници
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. JOHN DRYDEN.* VERSION OF THE NINETEENTH PSALM. THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 страници
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST ; OR, THE POWER OF Music. A song in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697. 'Twas at the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 страници
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. 478 TIfE ENGLISH POETS. ALEXANDER'S FEAST ; OR, THE POWER OF Music A song in honour of Si. Cecilia's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 страници
...To all the blessed abort ; So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling jvigeant shall demur, perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort,...command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With JOHN DKVDRN. MUSIC. FROM "THE MF.RCHANT OF VENICE," ACT V. SC. I. LORENZO. How sweet the moonlight... | |
 | 1881 - 456 страници
...appeared Mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. Written for the same day as the preceding, but in 1697.... | |
 | 1881 - 318 страници
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sang the great Creator's praise To all the blest above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." Ceof. Who told him that the " living would die " at the last day ? I have read, " We shall not all... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 страници
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest rning blushes on her cheek, And pearls upon her breast. JOHH DEYDKN. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. i. DESCEND, ye Nine ! descend and sing ; The breathing instruments... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 страници
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF Mus1c. A song in honour of St. Ctciliifs Day, 1697. Twas at the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 страници
...conceits. Better, however, are the concluding lines, when speaking of the last day he says : — ' The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky.' Dryden is thoroughly English in the strong sense and heartiness which he threw into all he wrote. The... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 страници
...above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall lie heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF JOHX MILTON. [Prefixed to " Paradise Lost."] THREE poets in three, distant ages... | |
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GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead... 
