| John Bell - 1778 - 438 pagine
...and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for heav'n. GRAND CHORUS' As from the pow'r of sacred lays 55 The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise, To all the blest ahove; So when the last and dreadful hour The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagine
...image so aivful in ;;<elf, that it can owe little t&poetry ; and 1 could wish the antithesis of musick -untuning had found some other place. As from the...hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet »hall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And muiick shall untuns the sky. Of his... | |
| 1802 - 584 pagine
...An angel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for heav'n. GRAND CHORDS. As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise. To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, et shall be beard... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagine
...image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and 1 could wish the antithesis of miiiick untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lay« The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above : So... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 494 pagine
...image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and I could wish the antithesis of music untuning, had found some other place. As from the...began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To ail the bless'd above : So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The... | |
| Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808 - 170 pagine
...earth for heav'n. AIR and CHORUS. As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sing the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above,—...shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the skv. ACT II. CONCERTO, Violoncello.... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pagine
...began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise As from the power of sacred lays To all the blessed above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. The descent of the angel we have... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 pagine
...angel heard, and straight appear 1 ct, Mistaking earth for Heav'n. GRAND CHORUS, As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung...shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, ~\ The dead shall live, the living die, > And Music shall untune the sky. ) ANONYMOUS. THE IVY. TTOW... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 490 pagine
...thoughts were figur'd there. *• when, by magic, ghosts «•* -— .JO" ** ' ot \ "tts-'S-^. SONG \ So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard ou high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. m . „ iot^° t& . tv... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 pagine
...image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and I could wish the antithesis of music untuning had found some other place. As from the power...the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above. Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonor», of which the following lines discover... | |
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