| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...inspiration of the muse, and shows a mastery over every measure of verse. St. Cecilia's day was kept the 22d of November, and was celebrated from 1683 until 1744...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 ;... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...prize, Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. GRAND CHOBT73. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...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; He... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts un known before. Let Old Timotheua yield the prize, Or both divide the crown :... | |
| Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 Seiten
...breathing Flute, And sounding Lyre, Cou'd swell the Soul to rage, or kindle soft Desire. At last the 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 Dryden - 2003 - 1024 Seiten
...mortal to the skies. She drew an angel down. 170 GRAND CHORUS At last divine Cecilia came, Inventren of the vocal frame: The sweet enthusiast, from her...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; He... | |
| Diethelm Brüggemann - 2004 - 550 Seiten
...the Soul to rage, or kindle soft Desire", kommt Dryden unvermittelt auf die hl. Cäcilie zu sprechen: „At last Divine Cecilia came, / Inventress of the...Frame; / The sweet Enthusiast, from her Sacred Store, / [...]". Den Preis für das größte musikalische Verdienst müßten sie sich wohl teilen, Timotheus... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - 2005 - 433 Seiten
...harmony with its milder conditions; and then as Dryden says: "At last divine Cecilia came, Inveotress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast. from her...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before." Unless the greatest and best of the race are wholly at fault... | |
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