 Grand Chorus. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise 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...  Samuel Rogers and His Circle - Page 270by Richard Ellis Roberts - 1910 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1872 - 858 pages
...Dryden's words in their entirety : ' As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky.' f See vol. ix. p. 307. sion that matchless English vocalist Harper, the prince of trumpeters ; had... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move. And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessd above : " So, when the last and dreadful hour This...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky." Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleoncra^ of which the following lines discover... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...appear'd— Mistaking Earth for Heaven ! Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The deud shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. The spheres began to move, And sung... | |
 | Dionysius Cassius Longinus, Longinus - 1867 - 230 pages
...Cecilia's Day," and "Alexander's Feast," by concluding each with a poor antithetical conceit : — " So, when the last and dreadful hour, This crumbling...shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, Kindred to this is a third species of fault, where the passions are concerned, which Theodorus used... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 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. /. cov. THE SAIL OK 8 SONG. PT1HE sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! -*- The blue, the fresh, the ever... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praiso To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. From 'T/te Flower and the Leaf,' a Tale from C/utuczr. Now turning from the wintry signs, the sun His... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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. "LOVE STILL HAS SOMETHING." BY SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. — 1639-1701. [SiR CHARLES SEDLEY was born at Aylesford,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...diapason closing full in MAN ! 8. As, from the power of sacred lays, The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above;...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. 3. All Nature speaks in music,—every tone She utters, from the crashing thunder's roar, Or Ocean's... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...spheres as initiated by the power of sacred lays ; and — " So when the last and dreadful hour The crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky." * Sound the horns ! is the bidding of the royal warrior, in the Saga of King Olaf : " And suddenly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...the power of sacred lays 55 The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all_the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, 60 The trumpet shall be heard on high, / Thellead shall live, the living diej ' And Music shall untune... | |
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