| 1816 - 598 páginas
...finest poets : Uryden in his Alexander's Feast, and Pope in his Ode on St.Cecilia'i Day: viz. " At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bound», And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. GRAND CHORUS. 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 jarisse, Or both divide the crown... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 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...narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature'smother-wit,and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 346 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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 292 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...narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, [fore. With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown beLet old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide... | |
| 1822 - 440 páginas
...aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire; • • And angels lean from heaven to hear. POPE. Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store At last divine CECILIA came, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and arts... | |
| 1823 - 872 páginas
...Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The swtet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn...Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He rais'da mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. Grand chor. At last, &c. There is another poem... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...breathing flute •v. 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 tha former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 páginas
...souls aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire; And angels lean from heaven to hear. At last divine CECILIA came, Inventress of the vocal frame...With nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. It was after the change of religion in Rome, that St. Cecilia seems to have been substituted for Apollo... | |
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