 | English poems - 1870 - 722 Seiten
...T1motheus 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. SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA'S DAY. T7ROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony -*• This universal frame began... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 Seiten
...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.1 FROM "ALL FOR LOVE."' Act I. Scene I. OMENS OF EVIL. Last night, between the hours of twelve... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 Seiten
...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...raised a mortal to the skies ; She~ drew an angel down. • While in Latin the quantity of all syllables is fixed, in English, monosyllables may generally... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 Seiten
...nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, And sounding lyre, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down! Dryden. Ex. 1O1. Rome. Whose agonies are evils of a day ;— A world is at our feet as fragile as our... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 Seiten
...emphatic words, gross and refined, are opposed to each other, and contrasted with sense and understanding. "He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down." Here three emphatic words in the first line are opposed to three in the second. 10. In the following... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 Seiten
...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! John Dryden 177 PERSONAL TALK I AM not One who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, 165 nt below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And...flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And down.2 170 GRAND CHORUS At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 Seiten
...store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, e misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee:...ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure; wh GRAND CHORUS At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...Enlarged the former narrow bounds And added length to solemn sounds, 175 With nature's mother wit, 180 1697 Milltam Congrebe (1670-1729) ODE DAUGHTER of Memory, immortal Muse, Calliope; what poet wilt... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 Seiten
...another power, the divine idea represented by St. Cecilia in the deus ex machina of Dryden's last stanza: "He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an Angel down" (169-170). Behind the draperies of this grandly staged drama is, of course, its author and director,... | |
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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... 
