 Grand Chorus As from the 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 pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead...  A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics - Sida 218efter Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1899 - 314 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Bell - 1778 - 438 sidor
...An angel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for heav'n. GRAND CHORUS' As from the pow'r of sacred lays 55 The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise, To all the blest ahove ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, 60 The dead shall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 sidor
...favage race ; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre i But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher ; When to her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and ftraight appear'd Miftaking earth for heaven. Grand CHORUS. As from the poiver of facred lay:, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 664 sidor
...trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher r When to her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and ftraight appear'd Miftaking curth for heaven. Grand CHORUS. As from the power of facred lay:, The fpberes... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 312 sidor
...favage race ; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher: When to her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and ftraight appear'd Miftaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS.. As from the power of facred lays, The... | |
 | 1793 - 806 sidor
...fivage race; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia raib'd the wonder higher : When to her organ vocal breath was given, An ar.gcl heard, and ftraight aj pear'd Miftaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. At from tie poivcr offjcrtd... | |
 | Alexander Dalrymple - 1796 - 240 sidor
...favagr race; And trees uprooted left their place-, Sequacious of the Lyre: But bright Cecilia! rais'd the wonder higher : When to her Organ, vocal breath was given, An Angel heard, and ftruight appeai'd! Miltaking Earth for Heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of facred Lays, The... | |
 | Alexander Dalrymple - 1796 - 242 sidor
...favage race; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the Lyre: But bright Cecilia! rais'd the wonder higher : When to her Organ, vocal breath was given, An Angel heard, and ftraight appear'd! Miftaking Earth for Heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of facred Lays, The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 sidor
...Cecilia came, " Inventress of the vocalframe," &c. So, in his former Ode : "•But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher, " When to her organ vocal breath was given ; " An Angel heard, " And straight appcar'd, •' Mistaking earth for heaven." Thus also, Congreve : " The soft enervate lyre is drown'd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 sidor
...Cecilia came, " Inventress of the vocalframe," &c. So, in his former Ode ; " But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher, " When to her organ vocal breath was given ; " An Angel heard, " And straight appear'd, " Mistaking earth for heaven." Thus also, Congreve : adapted to religious worship, that circumstance... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 sidor
...Cecilia came, " hventress of the vocalframe" &c. So, in his former Ode : " But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher, " When to her organ vocal breath was given ; " An Angel heard, " And straight appear'd, " Mistaking earth for heaven/' adapted to religious worship, that circumstance might have... | |
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