When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell ; Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the muse's painting ; By turns they felt the glowing... Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Pàgina 22editat per - 1830Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pàgines
...well ; The good, the joy which it may bring, con. THE PASSIONS. HEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...snatched her instruments of sound, And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own... | |
| 1868 - 510 pàgines
...and, by the inevitable law of sympathy, presents what he sees. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtle? round, They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart. Sweet lessons... | |
| Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pàgines
...painting ; By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined; Till once, 't is said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt,...myrtles round, They snatched her instruments of sound j And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness ruled the hour,... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 pàgines
...prized. Thai on The Pcuuiona is one of the finest in the language. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each — for Madness ruled the hour — Would prove... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pàgines
...the groaning of the bells ! ODE TO THE PASSIONS. Wm. Collint. When Music, heavenly maid ! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...Muse's painting ; By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturb'd, delighted, raised, refined ; Till once, 'tis said, when all were fired, Fill'd with fury,... | |
| 1870 - 314 pàgines
...voices calls on GOD. 0 X. — ODE ON THE PASSIONS. — Collins. When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each,Jfor madness ruled the hour,) Would prove his own... | |
| Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1870 - 204 pàgines
...recommend Collins' Ode on the Passions : ODE ON THE PASSIONS. When music, heavenly maid ! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart, Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pàgines
...awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there ! THE PASSIONS. HEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...magic cell, Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possest beyond the muse's painting : By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised,... | |
| Mrs. D. M. Warren - 1883 - 130 pàgines
...prose or poetry Example. When Music, heavenly maid! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond...Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined; Till once, 't is said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round... | |
| James L. Ohlson - 1883 - 154 pàgines
...afforded by measured poetical lines : — "When Music (heavenly maid) was young, ere yet in earliest Greece she sung, the Passions, oft, to hear her shell,...— raging — fainting — possessed, beyond the Muses' painting. By turns they felt the glowing mind disturbed — delighted, raised, refined ; till... | |
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