 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 408 páginas
...confused and indistinct; the other is buried in minute accuracy, but without compass, and Without dignity. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both- divide the crown ; He rais'da mortal to the skits, She drew an angel down-. The following sentences afford examples where... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811
...narrow bounds, And added length to folemn founds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. 176 Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He rais'da mortal to the fkies ; She drew an angel down. 180 Ver. 180. If Dryden had never written anything... | |
 | John Brady - 1813
...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 frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, WithNature's mother wit, and... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 407 páginas
...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 frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and... | |
 | 1816
...Ihe former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and art unknow before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He rais'da mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down." DRYDEN. " OfOrpheus now no more let poets tell,... | |
 | John Brady - 1815
...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 frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, WithNature's motherwit,and arts... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 324 páginas
...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 frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and... | |
 | John Henry Brady - 1815
...breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last diviue CECILIA came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, WithNature's motherwit,and arts... | |
 | 1816
...— Divide the living child into two, ami give half to the one, and half to the other, i Kings. — Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He rais'd a-mortal to the fkies, She drew an angel down. Dryden's St Cecilia. -r-They were divided into... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...the breathing flute And sounding lyre Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown :... | |
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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... 
