| John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...free. "With Eloquence innate his Tongue was arm'd; Tho'harfh the Precept, yet the Preacher charm'd. For, letting down the golden Chain from high, He drew his Audience upward to the Sky: And oft, with holy Hymns, he charm'd their Ears : (A Mufick more melodious than the Spheres.)... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arra'd ; Tho harm the precept, yet the people charm'd, For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears : (A mu(ic more melodious than the fpheres.) For... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...people charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A...to reft, • His lyre/; and after him he fung the beft. He He bore his great commiffion in his look : But fweetly temper'd awe; and foften'd all he fpoke.... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...free. j With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Tho' harm the precept, yet the people charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their earss (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harlh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew...the iky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their can {A mufic more melodious than the fpheres) : For For David left him, when he went to reft, His lyre;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...charm'd. . . For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky: And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres): For r ' For David left him, when he went to reft, His lyre ; and after him he fung the bcft. .'He' bore... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd.; Though harm the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky: And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears {A mufic more melodious than the fpheres): Tor David... | |
| John Dryden - 1771 - 256 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Tho' har(h the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the (ky : And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For... | |
| John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain on high, He drew his audience upward to the fky : And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears ;...fpheres.) For David left him, when he went to reft, HisJyre; and after him, he fung the beft. He bore his great commiflion in his look; But fweetly temper'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...infpired, more enraptured, more fublime than the poet— and that, in his ordinary converfation, — letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the iky. Notwithftanding Young had faid, in his ConjeRures n original Cempojition, that " blank verfe is verfe... | |
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