| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...to the skies ; She drew an angel down. GRAND CHORUS. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of die vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred...narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature'smodier-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timodieus yield the prize, Or both divide the... | |
| Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 páginas
...with those immortalized in Dryden's ode : • ' The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn...With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before." It is a common observation, that the organ is peculiarly adapted to solemn sounds; and the swelling... | |
| 1816 - 598 páginas
...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 ait unknow before. , Let... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 346 páginas
...mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. GRAND CHORUS. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her...narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, WithNature'smother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn...and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. VENI CREATOR... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...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 prize, Or both divide the crown ;... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...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...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 ;... | |
| 1823 - 872 páginas
...rage, or kindle soft désire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The swtet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former...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 :... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...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 arts unknown... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventrem prize, Or both divide the crown ; He rais'da mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. THE SECULAR... | |
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