 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
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 ; So when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1853 - 408 pages
...sufficient agility to keep time, the movement being rather too quick for his elephants or buffaloes. " As from the power of sacred lays, The spheres began to move." A charming solo for Madame Mara, Senza orchestra requiring great strength and evenness of voice. After... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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...some other place: " As from the power of sacred lays So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 pages
...upon the preceding description. ' The conclusion,' says Dr. Johnson, ' is striking ; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little...poetry ; and I could wish the antithesis of music wUmtiyy had some other place.' they committed the indiscretion of ascribing her majesty's pregnancy... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 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 blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for heaven. GBAND 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... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 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 ; So when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...: When to her Organ vocal breath was given An Angel heard, and straight appear'd — Grand Chorus. As from the 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move. And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessd above : " So, when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | 1873 - 758 pages
...years — I had never forgotten the impres* The following are Dryden's words in their entirety : ' As from the 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... | |
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