 | English poetry - 1881 - 456 pages
...appeared Mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. Written for the same day as the preceding, but in 1697.... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 318 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sang the great Creator's praise To all the blest above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." Ceof. Who told him that the " living would die " at the last day ? I have read, " We shall not all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above. So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the sky. Of his skill in Elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of which... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF Mus1c. A song in honour of St. Ctciliifs Day, 1697. Twas at the... | |
 | English poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sj<y. J. Diydeii I.XIV ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEMONT Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughter'd Saints, whose... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above: So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. JOHN DRYDEN from Song for St Cecilia's Day (for Benjamin Britten) . . .Restore our fallen day; O re-arrange.... | |
 | Kurt Spang - Advertising - 1987 - 278 pages
...tarda, la morte, la morte ehe vive! John Dryden, The Instruments from A Song for St. Cecilia 's Day The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust l Ein dunkler Ehrenmann. Werbebeispiele SEAT (Automobile) Seat 133:... | |
 | Patrick O'Brian - Fiction - 1991 - 352 pages
...his bosom, 'what is afoot?' 'I am not sure,' said Jack, 'but it may be your St Cecilia: And when that last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. Look out to the east, will you?' They gazed through the stern window, where deep purple was massing... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...To all the bless'd above, So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, 60 The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall...live, the living die. And music shall untune the sky. Katherine Fowler Philips (163 1-1664 ) Bom in London, educated at Mrs. Salmon's School for girls (she... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 332 pages
...Cecilia's Day', 'From Harmony, from Heavn'ly Harmony', in the climactic paradoxes of its closing section: So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...heard on high, The Dead shall live, the Living die And Musick shall untune the Sky, or the hair-raisingly apocalyptic Cowley ode 'Awake and with attention... | |
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To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. 
