 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...rage, or kindle soft desire. At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame : The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown beforeLet old Timotheus yield the prize; Or both divide the crown: —... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...rage — or kindle soft desire. At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown :... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize; Or both divide the crown: — He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. MORNING. BYRON. Night wanes, the vapours round... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former...rais'da mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. 24 PART H. LESSONS IN SECTION I. ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT. • I. — On Truth and Integrity. — TILLOTSON.... | |
 | Rolf Hendrik Bremmer - 1998 - 292 pages
...OF MVS1QVE, / An Ode 1n Honour of St. CEC1LlA'S Day', Kinsley, op.cit., 509 (First edition, 1697): 'Let old Timotheus yield the Prize,/ Or both divide the Crown:/ He raised a mortal to the sky;/ She drew an Angel down.' See also Excursus ll below. Haendel turned Dryden's... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...rage, or kindle soft Desire. At last the Divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the Vocal Frame; The sweet Enthusiast, from her Sacred Store, Enlarg'd the former...Bounds, And added Length to solemn Sounds, With Nature's Mother-Wit, and Arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the Prize, Or both divide the Crown; He... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame;0 The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown; He... | |
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At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. 
