 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...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 : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. DBYDEX. 18. SPEECH OP ROLLA. . MY brave associates — partners of my toil, my feelings, and my fame... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 Seiten
...sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding. The following is an example of treble emphasis : He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. scarcely any necessity to enforce one more than another, and the inflections easily fall into a just... | |
 | John Freeman Milward Dovaston - 1839 - 76 Seiten
...exquisitely rich Ode to Music, when speaking of the respective powers of Old Timotheus and St. Cecilia — " He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down :" for so truly angelic is the power of music, that " Heaven itself will stoop to her." The surprising... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 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...raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. APPENDIX. CHAP. I.— OF DERIVATION. DERIVATION is a species of Etymology, which explains the various... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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...raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. OP these the false Aehitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed... | |
 | 1840 - 870 Seiten
...favourites, and perhaps -; - they are so still at most schools, — - "Alexander's Feast" and Collins's " He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down." Pope's ending is perhaps a little less epigrammatical, and that is a wonder for him : — " His numbers raised... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 Seiten
...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...of his powers on Orpheus and his lyre, but at last celebrates the divine vocalist and organist in true poesy. " Music the fiercest grief can charm, •... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1841 - 1030 Seiten
...was so, my beloved, and peerless one, repeated the lines, turning first to me, and then to her — " He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down." Something beyond the ordinary tone of feeling followed this, in which our noble visiter bore a part;... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 Seiten
...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...raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. DRYDIN. I. On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden enow, And dark as winter... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 Seiten
...store Enlarged the former narrow bounds. And added strength to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the...raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. PATHETIC AND ENTERTAINING. 1. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENACHERIB. Byron. The Assyrian came down like the... | |
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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... 
