 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1908 - 476 pages
...courtly stable Bright-harness 'd Angels sit in order serviceable. SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1687 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! Then... | |
 | English poetry - 1908 - 464 pages
...stable Bright-harness 'd Angels sit in order serviceable. J. Milton. SONG FOR ST. CECILIA-'S DAY, 16S7 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! Then... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...earlier, as a broadside, like its greater eucceeeor, Alexander's Feast.] FROM harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began: When Nature underneath...And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was beard from high: " Arise, ye more than dead." Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...part With double portion of his father's art. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY." NOVEMBEB 2-2, 1C87. 1 his head, 41 dropsy 4=Cp. / Henry IV., II. iv. 403. 43 small barrel ^^ Shadwell was not Irish and Insisted that... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...for Cecilia's Day, which is lost in the splendor of the second, there are passages which would have dignified any Other poet. The first stanza is vigorous...technical, and the rhymes are too remote from one another. . . . The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful in itself that it can... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...for Cecilia's Day, which is lost in the splendor of the second, there are passages which would have dignified any other poet. The first stanza is vigorous...technical, and the rhymes are too remote from one another. . . . The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful in itself that it can... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...opinion. Quoted by Leon Lederman in The God Particle (p. 1) Dryden, John From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began: When Nature underneath...atoms lay, And could not heave her head . . . The Poetical Works of Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 1.4-8 The airy atoms did in plagues conspire... | |
 | Wade Rowland - Religion and science - 2003 - 340 pages
...for joy." Dryden wrote: From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When jarring nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay And could not heave her head. The tuneful voice we heard from high: Arise, ye more than dead. And Shakespeare, in The Merchant of Venice, speaks of... | |
 | Gillian Rosemary Evans - Religion - 2006 - 244 pages
...Corporeall, that is to say, Body; and hath the dimensions of Magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth, and Depth.' From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was hear from high: Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations... | |
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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. 
