| John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...pow'r 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. IV. THE TEARS or AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH or DAMON. I. V^N a bank, beside a willow, Heav'n her cov'ring,... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began t6 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. The descent of the angel we have already mentioned. She thus announces this celestial attendant to... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...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. The descent of the angel we have already mentioned. She thus announces this celestial attendant to... | |
| Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808 - 170 pages
...pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sing the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above, — So when the last and dreadful hour This...shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the skv. ACT II. CONCERTO, Violoncello. Mr. REINAGLB. SONG. Mrs. DICKONS. Purcell. From silent shades,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall Ifve, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. THE IVY. TTOW yonder ivy courts the oak, •^... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...power of sacred lays, the spheres began to move, and sung the great Creator's praise to all the bless'd 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. ' . An Ode in -honour of St. Cecilia's Day. • T was at... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...sacred lays, the spheres began to TOON*, ahdsung the great CteatoY1* ^tsivi 4. .11 to all the bless'd above; so when the last and dreadful hour this crumbling...live, the living die, and Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OH, THE POWER OF MUSIC. An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day. T was at the royal... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above : So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...high, "~) The dead shall live, the living die, > And musick shall untune the sky. , J Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above : So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the sky. Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above : So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the sky, Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of which... | |
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