 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...organ, vocal breath was given ; An Angel heard, and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for heaven. Grand Chorus. As from the power of sacred lays, The...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. JOSEPH ADDISON. Born 1672. Died 1719. THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY. O LIBERTY, thou goddess heavenly bright,... | |
 | Music - 1883 - 142 pages
...power 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...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. DRYOEN. THE POWER OF MUSIC. HUS, long ago, ^re heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were... | |
 | Education - 1884 - 708 pages
...from its influence, and it needs to be well set in a fitting situation, in order to re-assert itself. So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. Grand as these lines are, they have the vice of incoherence. The subject is, in point of lofty sublimity,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...When to her organ vocal breath was An angel heard, and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for heaven. Grand Chorus. As from the power of sacred lays The...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA's DAV, 1697. TWAS at the... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...sacred lays The spheres began to move, Ami sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above; !*> when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. '..N ODE IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1697. TWAS at the... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - Religious poetry, English - 1886 - 346 pages
...Heaven confessed, For ever blessing, and for ever blest. Matthew Prior LXXXIX THE LAST TRUMP AS grew the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move,...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. John Dryden xc " And Jesus said unto them, There shall not be left here one stone upon another. . .... | |
 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1886 - 460 pages
...first Imam, and the zeal of the followers who rely upon him for intercession at that great day when, The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. There is a tradition amongst the Muslims, that long before the creation of the world God took a ray... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1887 - 298 pages
...from its influence, and it needs to be well set in a fitting situation, in order to re-assert itself. So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. Grand as these lines are, they have the vice of incoherence. The subject is, in point of lofty sublimity,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1890 - 514 pages
...joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity." 2 As an aid to religion — " As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." 3 Or again — " Hark how it falls ! and now it steals along, Like distant bells upon- the lake at... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1890 - 416 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the Bless'd above, So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. RICHARD FLECKNOE. 16»*— 1678. CHLORIS. Chloris ! if ere May be done You but offer to be gone, Flowers... | |
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To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. 
