 | Edward Young - 1816 - 390 páginas
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime than the poet, and that, in his ordinary conversation, "Letting down the golden chain from high, " He drew his audience upward to the sky." On this occasion, at the request of these ladies, the author produced his Resignation, above-mentioned,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 544 páginas
...appointed for a General Fast." Pp. 16, 20, 21, Thus did Dr. Price exemplify the /with finest of Dryden : " For, letting down the golden chain from high> He drew his audience upward to the sky." PREFACE* TO THE GREEK HARMONY. [1777.] WHATEVER may be thought of the work which I now present to the... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 páginas
...beauty. With eloquence innate, his tongue was annVI ; Tho' harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd, For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears , (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 páginas
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his " Con" jectures on original Composition," that "blank " verse... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 páginas
...Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Tho' harsh tbe precept, yet the preacher charmed": For, letting down...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher chann'd. wr. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres,) For David... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 346 páginas
...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. Fo^ letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres,) For David... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1821 - 352 páginas
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preachercharm'd; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gospel rather than the law, And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 páginas
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arni'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres :) For David... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 222 páginas
...invested with all the veneration that was due to a messenger from God on an errand of eternal import. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; He bore his great commission in his look, But sweetly temper-d awe, and soften-d all he spoke. He preach-d... | |
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Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed, For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky, And oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears (A music more melodious than the spheres). For David left him, when... 
