 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pàgines
...waves. BYBON. DISCOVEBY OF MUSIC. When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren throng'd around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship...could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That sung so sweetly and so well. Music, which gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired... | |
 | Thomas Hastings - 1853 - 316 pàgines
...following couplets, from the same poem, are equally immusical, from the multiplication of sibilants: " Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." " In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers." — Ode for St Secilia't Day. In the well... | |
 | MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - 1854 - 444 pàgines
...lines of Dryden, that I know of, are these : — " "When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." The first four lines of this always seem to me magnificently harmonious. But almost any verse at random... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 350 pàgines
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. 20 Less than a God they thought there could not dwell...so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? m. The trumpet's loud clangor 25 Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 462 pàgines
...lines of Dryden, that I know of, are these : — ".When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces...fell, To worship that celestial sound. Less than a Ood they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 398 pàgines
...lines of Dryden, that I know of, are these : — " When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Ijess than a God they, thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pàgines
...: " What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Tubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." | In no respect did Dryden more rashly and fatally abandon the authority of his great predecessors,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pàgines
...: " What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Tubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." In no respect did Dryden more rashly and fatally abandon the authority of his great predecessors, than... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1855 - 106 pàgines
...the poet Dryden, describing those who listened to the music drawn from this simple invention, says— "Less than a God they thought there could not dwell,...Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly." A Greek writer, called Apollodorus, gives this account of the invention of music by the Egyptian god... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pàgines
...: " What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Tubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound ; I Less than a god they thought there could not dwell, , Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke... | |
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And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. 
