 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 страници
...Timotheus to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. VENI CEEATOE SPIEITTJS. Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come,... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 страници
...Enlargcdjthe former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, andjirts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize,...raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down." And yet it was a dispute about an ORGAN that gave birth to Protestant Methodism. A dispute about an... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 страници
...Tiniothcus to hia breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine "Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. JOHN °DRrDEN. CCXXVII.— LORD "CHATHAM. LORD CHATHAM has been generally regarded as the most powerful... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 страници
...Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down ! A* ODE TO SAINT CECILIA. l/ROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : When Nature... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 страници
...added length to solemn sounds, "With nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheiis yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. DHYDEN. Jons DKYDEN, one of the great masters of English verse, was torn at Oldwineklc, in Northamptonshire,... | |
 | 1866 - 618 страници
...Dryden, in his " Ode on Alexander's Feast;" where he says, of the power of Music, — " Let Old Timothcus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown — He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down." SIDNEY BEISLT. Sydenham, QUOTATION. — " The dial spoke not, but it made shrewd signs, And pointed... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1866 - 144 страници
...arranged in alternate rhymes : — Let old | Timo' | theus yield | the pri'ze, | Or bo'th | divi' de | the cro'wn : | He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. — DKYDEN. This metre, which is also called Service Metre, owing to its use in the English metrical... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 страници
...Timotheus, to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. EXERCISE CL. MESSIAH is the Hebrew, as CHRIST is the Greek, for anointed: the name being used in reference... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 страници
...enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, lu n it was too late), Mr. Hobbes, "Il GRAND CiiOBUS. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast,... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 страници
...enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, 134 With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before....raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. L'ALLEGKO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,... | |
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At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the... 
