...stronger than ordinary sensation, as Handel, on being asked how he wrote the ' Hallelujah Chorus,' said, ' I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself.' This superior vividness of imagination is finely described by Addison : — ' Words, when well chosen,...

...imagination portrayed when he heard his Messiah first publicly performed. ' I did think,' said he, ' I did see all Heaven before me and the Great God himself.' During her last illness, Mrs. Hemans would repeat to herself entire chapters of the Bible, and sometimes...

...time of fourteen days. He afterwards said to some one, speaking of composing the Hallelujah Chorus, " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.." His tears mingled with the ink as he penned the notes. Early in November he passed through Chester...

...more forcibly. Handel, in narrating his mental history in composing the "Hallelujah Chorus," says: "I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the Great God Himself." In the same sense preaching is a fragmentary utterance. If a man can speak all that he knows, he does...

..." Halleluiah Chorus." Handel in describing his thought at this moment in the composition, said : " I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself." Handel spent fifty years of a long life in England, but to the last he was a German. His musical style...

...sometimes found him weeping as he composed. He said of his feelings in composing the " Alleluia chorus " : "I did think I did see all heaven before me and the great God himself." And yet at that time he is said to have been passionate, intemperate, profane, and ungodly. This prevalence...

...express the solemn truths of sacred subjects. Handel, in commenting on the Hallelujah Chorus, said : " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself." At the head of his scores Haydn inscribed the words "In Nomine Domini," and at the end of them " Laus...

...believed himself inspired when he composed the "Messiah," and said in "his quaint * Icrnian-Knglish" — "I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great ( Jod himself." The gathering of the Welsh colony to celebrate St. David's Day, on March 1st. at Sherry's....

...believed himself inspired when he composed the "Messiah," and said in "his quaint German-English" — "I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself." The gathering of the Welsh colony to celebrate St. David's Day, on March ist. at Sherry's. New York,...

...roof-tree ! I think it must have been there that he composed " The Messiah," when, as he -said : " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself". It was a curious coincidence that he always expressed a wish to die on Good Friday, -"in the hope of...