 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!  The Lives of the English Poets - Page 272by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and I could wish the antithesis of music'n untiming had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...Through all the compass of Uie notes it ran, The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it includes au image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to...and I could wish the antithesis of music untuning bad fouiul some other place. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and 1 could wish the antithesis of music untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pages
...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry ; and 1 could wish the antithesis of miisic untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pages
...iLO'tj'O ;; i -.'' ;. 'i,".:'... . : ',., (j 'n..ujT (lne conclusion is likewise striking; put it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis ofmusick untuning had found some other place. " ,Yium lo "(As from the power of sacred lays • .•... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...melodic, To God alone thus in her heart sung she." 170 ODES, SONGS, AND LYRICAL PIECES GRAND CHORUS. As from the 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...breath was given ; An angel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for Heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above ; 19. BB So when the last and dreadful hour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe 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,... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking Earth for Heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays, The spheres began to move, And suug the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling... | |
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