 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 prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.  Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading ... - Page 135by Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage- -or kindle soil desire. At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...frame. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother.wit, and... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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. The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...Timothens, 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 ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Eularg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...th»t claimsour interest is the 22d, dedicated to Si. Cecilia, the great patroness of chureh music. "Divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame,...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown, He... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Ceuld swell the soul to rage — or kindle soft desire At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal...store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added strength to solemn sounds, With nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. Lei old Timotheus yield... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...breathing Flute, And sounding Lyre, Cou'd swell the Soul to rage, or kindle soft Desire. At last the Divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the Vocal Frame; The sweet Enthusiast, from her Sacred Store, Enlarg'd the former narrow Bounds, And added Length to solemn Sounds, With Nature's Mother-Wit, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...mortal to the skies. She drew an angel down. 170 GRAND CHORUS At last divine Cecilia came, Inventren of the vocal frame: The sweet enthusiast, from her...With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew... | |
 | Diethelm Brüggemann - 2004 - 550 pages
...the Soul to rage, or kindle soft Desire", kommt Dryden unvermittelt auf die hl. Cäcilie zu sprechen: „At last Divine Cecilia came, / Inventress of the...Frame; / The sweet Enthusiast, from her Sacred Store, / [...]". Den Preis für das größte musikalische Verdienst müßten sie sich wohl teilen, Timotheus... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 2005 - 433 pages
...harmony with its milder conditions; and then as Dryden says: "At last divine Cecilia came, Inveotress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast. from her...With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before." Unless the greatest and best of the race are wholly at fault in their estimate of the influence exerted... | |
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