 | Alexander Bain - 1887 - 298 pàgines
...Eurydice from the shades. Next to this incident in power, is the part he bore among the Argonautic heroes. But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher ; When...and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for heaven. The legend of St. Cecilia is a Christian equivalent of Orpheus, and made her the patron saint of music.... | |
 | 1888 - 596 pàgines
...extasies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes." Dryden, in his "Song for St. Cecilia's Day," says: " But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : When...heard, and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for heav'n." And the melancholy Gray, for the love of the organ, was inspired to write his most musical... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pàgines
...left their place Sequacious of1 the lyre ; But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher ; When to her2 organ vocal breath was given An angel heard, and straight appeared — Mistaking Earth for Heaven ! As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pàgines
...above. Orphens could lead the savage race, And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher ; When...straight appeared, — Mistaking earth for heaven ! GBAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1891 - 352 pàgines
...savage race ; And trees unrooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre : sf But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher : When to her organ vocal breath was given, An ange^ heard, and straight appear 'd Mistaking earth for heaven. • GRAND CHORUS. As from the power... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pàgines
...Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees uprooted left their place Sequacious 2 of the lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : When...and straight appeared — Mistaking earth for heaven ! Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's... | |
 | 1893 - 346 pàgines
...Orpheus could lead the savage race ; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre ; But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher, When...and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for Heaven. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 pàgines
...Orpheus could lead the savage race ; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : When...vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appear'd Mistaking earth for heaven. Grand Chorus. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 290 pàgines
...Paradise : she suffered martyrdom in AD 220. See Dryden, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 52-54 :— " When to her organ vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appear'd, Mistaking earth for heaven. " There are famous pictures of St. Cecilia by Raphael and by... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pàgines
...above. Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees unrooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre ; But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher; When...vocal breath was given,, An angel heard, and straight appealed, Mistaking earth for heaven. Grand Chorus. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began... | |
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The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. 
