| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...stations leap, And musick's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis ofmusick untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...there are passages which would have dignified any other poet. The first stanza is vigorous and elegant; the conclusion is likewise striking, but it includes...awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry. " Of his skill in elegy, he has given a specimen in his Eleonora. This piece is not without its faults... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...stations leap, And musick's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of musick untuning had found some other place : As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...stations leap, And musick's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...little to poetry ; and I could wish the antithesis of musick untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 508 pages
...harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the iiotes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion...little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of musick untuning had found some other place : As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. n. What passion cannot music raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His list'ning brethren... | |
| John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 536 pages
...stations leap, And Music's power obey. ' From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. What Pythagoras thus called numbers Plato denominated ideas, a term which has, hence, descended to... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. n. What passion cannot music raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His list'ning brethren... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...vourite words and phrases. Example 2. 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.f Jfnalitsis. This is of the same signature with the former ; there is noi even a glimpse of meaning... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...harmony, from heavenly harmony, This tumr t •',!I frame began: From harmony :0 harmony Through all tlte compass of the notes it ran. The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise strikiog; bat it inclndes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry: and I could... | |
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