 GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays, the spheres began to move, and sung the great Creator's praise to all the bless'd above; so when the last and dreadful hour this crumbling pageant shall devour, the trumpet shall be heard on high, the dead...  Works - Page 103by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...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...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. IV. THE TEARS or AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH or DAMON. I. V^N a bank, beside a willow, Heav'n her cov'ring,... | |
 | Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808 - 170 pages
...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 live, the living die, And music shall untune the skv. ACT II. CONCERTO, Violoncello. Mr. REINAGLB. SONG. Mrs. DICKONS. Purcell. From silent shades,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began t6 move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. The descent of the angel we have already mentioned. She thus announces this celestial attendant to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. The descent of the angel we have already mentioned. She thus announces this celestial attendant to... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...An augel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for Heav'n. GRAND CHORUS. As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung...The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall Ifve, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. THE IVY. TTOW yonder ivy courts the oak, •^... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and I could wish the antithesis of musick untuning had found some other place. As from the power...high, "~) The dead shall live, the living die, > And musick shall untune the sky. , J Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...vocal breath was given, an, angel heard and straight appear'd mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays, the spheres began...live, the living die, and Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. ' . An Ode in -honour of St. Cecilia's Day. • T was at... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...from the power of sacred lays, the spheres began to TOON*, ahdsung the great CteatoY1* ^tsivi 4. .11 to all the bless'd above; so when the last and dreadful...live, the living die, and Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OH, THE POWER OF MUSIC. An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day. T was at the royal... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise "to all the III. -M above: So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of which the following lines discover... | |
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