 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 - Pàgina 272per Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Bain - 1887 - 348 pàgines
...of his tuneful hand, In order ranged the green memorials stand. Now comes the ambitious climax : — As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above. This half of the stanza may be viewed by... | |
 | Dalhousie University - 1888 - 212 pàgines
...instead of ball. He placed a mighty mug of potent ale. (b). When Jubal struck the corded shell. (f). As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move. (d). On shining altars of Japan they raise the silver lamp, (e). And wits take lodging in the found... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pàgines
...organ vocal breath was given An angel heard, and straight appeared — Mistaking Earth for Heaven ! 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 trembling... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pàgines
...joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity." 2 As an aid to religion — " 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 crumbling... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 pàgines
...joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity." 2 As an aid to religion — " 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 crumbling... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 pàgines
...vocal 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... | |
 | 1893 - 346 pàgines
...her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for Heaven. 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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pàgines
...joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within Jheir own eternity." ! As an aid to religion — " 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 crumbling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pàgines
...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... | |
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