 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1834 - 328 páginas
...to analyse every composition, as if he wished to break its spell. He never exclaimed with Dryden, " Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That sung go sweetly and so well." Then what were the merits to counterbalance these blemishes ? First,... | |
 | John Warren - 1834 - 262 páginas
...poetry, the first lyre being said to have been made by straining strings over the shell of a Tortoise : Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that ehell, That spoke so sweetly. Dryden. The Hermes or Mercury of the Egyptians surnamed Trismagistus,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 páginas
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound ; Less than a god they thought there could not dwell...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well" DRYDEJJ. To return to the general subject : the hemistich* of Lamech, on which we have commented, are... | |
 | 1850 - 464 páginas
...their faces fell, To worship the celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there scarce could dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." Dryden's Ode for St. Cecilia's Dny. The invention of instruments at this early age of the world, implies... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 590 páginas
...listening brethren stood around And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell...of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well:— What passion cannot music raise and quell! As music, which I apprehend had the precedence of poetry... | |
 | 1840 - 870 páginas
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well, What passion cannot M iisic raise and quell !" The instant worship, and prostration before the supposed... | |
 | 1840 - 906 páginas
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial soundLess than a god they thought there could not dwell Within...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and qnell!" The instant worship, and prostration to raise it. As a... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1844 - 624 páginas
...Hst'ning brethren stood around, And wond'ring on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound; Less than a God they thought there could not dwell...of that shell. That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell! 25a3 iff: SBic madjtig fann bie Sonfunft baê ©emütlj... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1844 - 626 páginas
...wond'ring on their faces fell, , To worship that celestial sound; I^ess than a God they thought there conld not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell! -'.. ' Sa« ifl: -' • v. » г ••••• • •>... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 páginas
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God, they thought, there could not dwell...of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell 1 The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill... | |
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And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. 
