 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...prey, And, like another Helen, flr'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows leam'd to blow, Appleton Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 Seiten
...Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus,.to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre, Could swell...or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 Seiten
...prey And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage—or kindle soft desire. At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame.• 260 POETRY.... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - 332 Seiten
...thoughts that breathe and words that burn," and by sounds as stirring as those of old Timotheus, whose " breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire," their hearts beat in concord to the varying strain; they are melted to pity or fired to heroic ardour.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 Seiten
...And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. 7. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus, to his breathing...or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame. The sweet +enthusiast, from her sacred stors Enlarged the former narrow... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. VII. Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute ; Timotheus, to his breathing...or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from the sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 Seiten
...prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving billows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute ; Timotheus, to his breathing...or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timothcus to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At lust divine Cecilia came, Inveutress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 350 Seiten
...like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. VII. Thus, long ago, 155 Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus, to his breathing...Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. 1/^At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 Seiten
...another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving billows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timothens to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell...or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow... | |
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At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the... 
