 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...With Eloquence innate his Tongue was arm'd; Tho'harfli the Precept, yet the Preacher charm'd. For, letting down the golden Chain from high, He drew his Audience upward to the Sky: And oft, with holy Hymns, he charm'd their Ears: • (A Mufick more melodious than the Spheres.)... | |
 | 1735 - 682 pages
...appea-ed to greater advantage in the companion, than ever» 'in the author—that the chriftian in bim was a character ftill more infpired, more enraptured,...more fublime than the poet and that, in his ordinary ccoverfation, " —Letting down the golden chain from high, " He drew his audience upward to the iky.... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Tho harfh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For David... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Tho' harm the precept, yet the people charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky: And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres.) For David... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Though harm the precept, yet the people charm'd. .. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky: And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres): r ' For David... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harm the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the Iky: And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres): 'For... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Though harm the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the flcy: And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ear* (A mufic more melodious than the fpheres): I For... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1783 - 608 pages
...infpired, more cnraj-turcd, more fnbtime than the poet — and that, in his ordinary conversation, — letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky." "This account of Young was feeii.by y<ni in manufcript, you know, Sr; ind, though I could not prevail... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...the dreg, in thoughts Too common ; fuch as thefe. By the fame Lady I am enabled to fay, in her own words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion, than even in the author—that the chriftian was in him a character ftHl more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...the dreg, in thoughts loo common ; fuch as thefe. By the fame Lady I am enabled to fay, in iicr own words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater...chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the Iky. Notwithftanding Young had faid, in his " Conjeftures on original Compofition," that " blank.verfe... | |
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words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion than even in the author; that the Chriftian was in him a character ftill more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime, than the poet; and that, in his ordinary converfation,... 
