 | John Brady - 1815 - 420 pages
...with the following encomium on this musical Saint: — " Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn' d to blow, While organs yet were mute ; TIMOTHEUS to...Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine CECILIA came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud, with a furious joy ! And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy Thais led the way, To light him to his prey : And, like another Helen — fir'd another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving, bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...ano.tb.er Helen— fir'd another Troy. Thus long ag», Ere heaving bellows learnM to blow, W lii le organs yet were mute ; Timotheus to his breathing...Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress ef the vocal frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...The princes applaud, with a furious joy; And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy; Thai's led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows leafn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute : Timotheus to the breathing flute... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows Icarn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute ; Timotheus, to...Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inven'res-s of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...temples of their hostile gods I—- The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey ; And, like another Helen, — fir'd another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute;... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Helen— fir'd another Troy. ,,. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, # While Qrgans yet were mute ; Timotheus, to his breathing flute...swell the soul to rage — or kindle soft desire. At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods. The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da in the sight, dejected to the ground, .Stoops for...relief; thence hot-ascending steams And keen reflec fir'd another Troy. And the king seiz'da flambeau with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods. — The princes applaud, with a furious joy, And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy...prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. CHORUS. And the King seized a flambeau with •seal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. VII. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to...Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred... | |
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