From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Specimens of the British Poets ... - Seite 216von British poets - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1873 - 852 Seiten
...sings prose hymns to nature in the attempt to expand the words of Drydon's hymn : — 1673] [Janaary From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began, From harmony to harmony Through «H the compuse of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Harmony is Shaftesbury's catchword.... | |
| John Dryden - 1874 - 740 Seiten
...III. A SONG FOR ST CECILIA'S DAY,1 168T. 1 FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms...This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony 1 ' St Cecilia's Day : ' 22d November— birthday of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music— a Roman... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 356 Seiten
...serviceable. SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA'S DA Y, 1687 From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms...more than dead ! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and diy In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 Seiten
...1701.] BONO TOR SAINT CECILIA'S DAT, 1667. FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : "When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring...from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold, and h0t, and moist, and dry In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from... | |
| 1876 - 556 Seiten
...opening lines are: — " From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Natnre underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay. And could...moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music't power obey." The closing chorus is : — " As from the power of sacred lays, The spheres began... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 Seiten
...TAYLOR. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1687. FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms...could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard froni high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations... | |
| Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 764 Seiten
...Harmony This Universal Frame began. When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring Atomes lay, And cou'd not heave her Head ; The tuneful Voice was heard from...moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And MUSICK'S pow'r obey. From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony This universal Frame began : From Harmony... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...CECILIA'S DAY, 1687 From harmony, from heav'niy harmony This universal frame began. When Nature undemeath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her...order, to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 10 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through... | |
| Daniel Albright - 1997 - 324 Seiten
...term: the great bass is comparable to the diapason in Dryden's "A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687": When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay,...voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead' . . . From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began; From harmony to harmony Through... | |
| C.C. Gaither - 1997 - 510 Seiten
...Lederman in The God Particle (p. 1) Dryden, John From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began: When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head . . . The Poetical Works of Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 1.4-8 The airy atoms did in plagues conspire... | |
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