 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...Sanctity: Mild was his Accent, and his Adion free. "With Eloquence innate his Tongue was arm'd; Tho'harfh the Precept, yet the Preacher charm'd. For, letting...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
...his 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,...And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears : (A mu(ic more melodious than the fpheres.) For David left him, when he went to reft, His lyre; and after... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...his aftion free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Tho' harfh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high,...their ears: (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For David left him, when he went to reft, • His lyre/; and after him he fung the beft. He He bore... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...his a&ion 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,...the fky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their earss (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For David left him, when he went to reft, His lyre;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...his aftion 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...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'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...his ailion 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 flcy: And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ear* (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres): I For... | |
 | John Dryden - 1771 - 256 pages
...: Mild wa< his aceent, and his sftiyn free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Tho' har(h the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For, letting...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
...tongue was arm'd; Tho' harm, the precept yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain on high, He drew his audience upward to the fky : And...ears ; (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For David left him, when he went to reft, HisJyre; and after him, he fung the beft. He bore his great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime than fhe poet—and that, in his ordinary converfation, —letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the lky. Notwithftanding Young had faid, in his Conjectures $n original Compofetion, that " blank verfe... | |
 | 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... | |
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