 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
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...was given, An augel heard, and straight appeared", — • 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared • Mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. A» from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move. And sung the great Creator's praise To all (fie blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, — 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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 bless'd above : So when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | Young people - 1879 - 348 pages
...incongruity so awful a fact as the blowing of the last trumpet which ushers in the day of judgment. " 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... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...breath was given, An Angel heard, and straight appeared — 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 ; 1 A great musician. He received a lyre from... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, 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 blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, 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 blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This... | |
 | 1881 - 318 pages
...uses. He is more religious in his other song for " St. Cecilia's Day," which ends with the chorus : " As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began...move, And sang the great Creator's praise To all the blest above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall... | |
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