 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...No face of all can ever seem the same. RICHARD WATSON GILDER. A SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA'S DAY, 1687. FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and moist ami... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...subjects except those of mathematics and music. DEAN SWIFT. 21. MUSIC. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1687. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard on high,— " Arise, ye more than dead ! " Then hot, and cold, and moist, and dry In order to their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...prince's praise is The first Ode was so much 'lost' great.' 1. 377. that in 1756 Dr. Warton wrote:— any other poet. The first stanza is vigorous and elegant,...', and the rhymes are too remote from one another. 1 From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1905 - 1008 pages
...greater fool to cry him up. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY. By John Dryden. I. From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And cou'd not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold,... | |
 | England - 1840 - 882 pages
...which is lost in the splendour of the second, there are passages which would have dignified any oiher poet. The first stanza is vigorous and elegant, though...one another. ' From harmony, from heavenly harmony, The universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...SELECTIONS FROM THE FIRST CRITICAL PERIOD. (1660-1745-) I. DRYDEN'S SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY.1 I. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal...atoms' lay, And could not heave * her head, The tuneful voice5 was heard from high: Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,' In order... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...too hard to find ; See then whom thou canst see not far behind. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY 1687 I FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, 5 And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, "Arise, ye more than dead."... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...too hard to find ; See then whom thou canst see not far behind. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY 1687 I FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, s And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, In order to their stations leap,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1907 - 276 pages
...Dryden, St Cecilia's Day, i — 10 : " From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame [cf. 924] began. When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, • And could not heave her head, PLI II. 9 The tuneful voice was heard from high : Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist... | |
 | Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Harry Gilbert Paul - English poetry - 1908 - 430 pages
...drugget, came To teach the nation in thy greater name.' A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1687 FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, 5 The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead.' Then cold, and hot, and moist,... | |
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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 timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. 
