 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.  Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret - Page 19by Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 220 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...of this kind from Dryden : — " From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame hegan ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran ; The diapason closing full in man." d. The Fourth species may he denominated Learned Nonsense. The following... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and...harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it includes an image so awful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Tl ion cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their...harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame Ixjgan : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Venus comes not ev'ry Day. NAEL-1; PoE; PoEL-3; Prim; SeCV-2 Song for Saint Cecilia 's Day 1687 J5 the exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or...force and full result of all. (Fr. II) HAP, PoEL- Diapason closing full in Man. (1. 11—15) The dead shall live, the living die, And MUSICK shall untune... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...beginning of his 'Song for St Cecilia's Day': From harmony, from heavenly harmony This everlasting frame began; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The Diapason closing full in Man. In the centre of the universe (he taught) there was a central fire, the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...undemeath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, "Arise ye more than dead," Then cold, and hot, and...order, to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 10 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through... | |
 | Lawrence Kramer - Music - 2023 - 324 pages
...of this idea is exemplified in Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687), which describes how "cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, / In order to their stations leap" (9-1o) in response to the "tuneful voice" of the Creator. Text modernized from Dryden's Poetical Works,... | |
 | G. R. Mead - Philosophy - 1996 - 218 pages
...when man becomes one with the great Soul of Nature. Tho idea is well expressed by Dryden, who writes: From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. All activity creates sound, and when a man really gets atmic or spiritual... | |
 | Alan J. Hommerding - Music - 1997 - 180 pages
...underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high: "Arise, ye more than dead." Then cold, and hot, and...harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell! When Jubal struck the corded... | |
 | Daniel Albright - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead' . . . From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. When Handel set this to music, in 1739, he had his chorus sing simple... | |
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