 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...To all the blessed above ; So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall dcrour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. JOHN DRYDtzN. MAK. FROM " NIGHT THOUGHTS." How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...the book of fate; And there the last assizes keep For those who wake, and those who sleep. DRYDEN. When the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. DRYDEN. Minos, the strict inquisitor, appears, And lives and crimes with his assessors hears; Round... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of music untuning had found some other place : — 'As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky.' Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his ' Eleonora,' of which the following lines discover... | |
 | Young people - 1879 - 348 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." There are many of Dryden's poems to which we have not been able to call attention, aa for example,... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1879 - 494 pages
...death, and death be life ?) which struck the ancients as so startling a paradox ; and Dryden's — The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. The Apostle uses this figure in Romans i. 20 : T£ . . . 1 2 Cor. vi. 9. 3 I Tim. v. 6. uopa-ra avrov .... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on nigh, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. J. DRYDEN. 138Music in Heaven. .All The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST ; OR, THE POWER OF Music. A song in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697. 'Twas at the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. 478 TIfE ENGLISH POETS. ALEXANDER'S FEAST ; OR, THE POWER OF Music A song in honour of Si. Cecilia's... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. JOHN DRYDEN.* VERSION OF THE NINETEENTH PSALM. THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...To all the blessed abort ; So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling jvigeant shall demur, perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort,...command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With JOHN DKVDRN. MUSIC. FROM "THE MF.RCHANT OF VENICE," ACT V. SC. I. LORENZO. How sweet the moonlight... | |
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To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. 
