 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...  Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art - Side 330redigeret af - 1851Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 sider
...lived to practise, and died to glorify, and only a hasty intimation of her sacred power. " At last 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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sider
...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....bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts un known before. Let Old Timotheua yield the prize, Or both divide the crown :... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 sider
...Cecilia liyeA to practise, and died to glorify, and only a hasty intimation of her sacred power. "At last 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 ;... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 sider
...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 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Diethelm Brüggemann - 2004 - 550 sider
...rage, or kindle soft Desire", kommt Dryden unvermittelt auf die hl. Cäcilie zu sprechen: „At last Divine Cecilia came, / Inventress of the Vocal 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 sider
...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...bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before." Unless the greatest and best of the race are wholly at fault... | |
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