 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...organ's praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. o still and quiet, that her motion * judgment maimed, and most imperfect, That will appeared Mistaking earth for heaven. GttAXD CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees unrooted -left their place, Sequacious of the lyre f 50 But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : When...vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared Mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays 55 The spheres... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...Canadian into Orpheus, his flute into a lyre, the rattlesnake into Cerberus, or perhaps Eurydice." ' ' Orpheus could lead the savage race ; And trees uprooted left their place Sequacious of his lyre," says Dryden. Less reverent is Swift's rationale of the man and his method : — •' Orpheus,... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...organ's praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choira above. er, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine ; While...with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, ; AVhen to her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared Mistaking earth... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Music - 1872 - 348 pages
...Canadian into Orpheus, his flute into a lyre, the rattlesnake into Cerberus, or perhaps Eurydice." " Orpheus could lead the savage race ; And trees uprooted left their place Sequacious of his lyre," says Dryden. Less reverent is Swift's rationale of the man and his method : — •' Orpheus,... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...the wonder higher; "When to her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, Orpheus * could lead the savage race; And trees uprooted left their place, Mistaking earth for heaven. OBAXD CHOBUS. As from the power of sacred lays To all the blest above;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways ; To mend the choirs above. V Orpheus could lead the savage race ; And trees uprooted...heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for Leaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...organ's praise ? Notes inspiringholy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees uprooted...vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, — Mistaking earth for heaven ! GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. DRYDEN. Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees uprooted...wonder higher; When to her organ vocal breath was giv'n, An angel heard, And straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for heav'n. DRYDEN. Ye brethren of the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...organ's praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. Orpheus could lead the savage race ; And trees uprooted...vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared Mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. At from the power of sacred lays The s])heres begun... | |
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The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees uprooted left their place. Sequacious of the lyre ; But bright Cecilia raised the wonder... 
