| John Bell - English poetry - 1778 - 438 pages
...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 This crumbling pageant shall devour, 60 The dead shall live, the living die, C And music shall untune the sky. } 'V. t THE TEARS OF AMYNTA... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...-untuning had found some other place. 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...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 when the last ajid dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on hi^i, The dead... | |
| 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...shall 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,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 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...shall 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... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 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...shall 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... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...earth for Heav'n. GRAND CHORUS. As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above...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, •^... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...«•* - — .JO" ** 'ot\ "tts-'S-^. SONG \ — «» sung the great Creator's praise To all the blesa'd above ; 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. . „ i ot^°t& . tv... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...earth for heaven. 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;...shall 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...untuning had found some other place. 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...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... | |
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