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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. "
The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 19
by John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pages
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A new English grammar

Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...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 raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. APPENDIX. CHAP. I.— OF DERIVATION. DERIVATION...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 pages
...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....Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down." Pope's ode, which has been considered far inferior...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timothous fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more, She most, ami in her look GRAND CHORUS. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from...
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Franciscus Junius F.F. and His Circle

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...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 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...rais'da Mortal to the Skies; She drew an Angel down. (lines 155-7o) Johnson was obviously serious about the lasting benefit of Christianity, symbolized...
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The Major Works

John Dryden - 2003 - 1000 pages
...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 raised a mortal to the skies. She drew an angel down. 170 GRAND CHORUS At last divine Cecilia came,...
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