| Charles Brodie Patterson - 1915 - 330 страница
...swelling notes our souls aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire; And angels lean from Heaven to hear. Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell, To bright Cecilia greater pow'r is given; His numbers raised a shade from Hell, Hers lift the soul to Heav'n." — POPE. IN any new departure... | |
| 1882 - 792 страница
...swelling notes our souls aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire, And angels lean from heaven to hear. Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell : To bright Cecilia greater power is given ; His numbers raised a shade from hell, Hers lift the soul to heaven ! It would be impertinent... | |
| George Carver - 1926 - 504 страница
...souls aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire ; And angels lean from heaven to hear. 130 Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell ; To bright Cecilia greater power is given : His numbers raised a shade from hell, Hers lift the soul to heaven. ODE THE DYING... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 страница
...Souls aspire, While solemn Airs improve the sacred Fire ; And Angels lean from Heav'n to hear ! 130 Of Orpheus now no more let Poets tell, To bright Cecilia greater Pow'r is giv'n ; His Numbers rais'da Shade from Hell, Hers lift the Soul to Heav'n. An Essay on Criticism -Si quid novifti rectius iftis,... | |
| Marcia R. Pointon - 1997 - 468 страница
...above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's Praise confin'd the Sound . . . Df Depheus now no more let Poets telL To bright Cecilia greater Pow'r is giv'n; His Numbers rais'da Shade from Hell, Hers lift the Soul to Heav'n.MI The celebrations on St Cecilia's day that were a feature... | |
| Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 страница
...notes our souls aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire. l30 And angels lean from heaven to hear! Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell; To bright Cecilia greater power is given. His numbers raised a shade from hell. Hers lift the soul to heaven. O23 Anne Finch,... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 страница
...produced an English version of Orpheus and %* The tale is introduced by Pope in his St. Cecilia's Ode. Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell, To bright Cecilia greater power is given ; His numbers raised a shade from hell, Hers lift the soul to heaven. Pope, St. Cecilia's... | |
| Nicholas Michael Butler - 2007 - 412 страница
...respective accomplishments of these two figures and again judges Cecilia's Christian virtue superior: Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell, To bright Cecilia greater pow'r is giv'n; His numbers rais'da shade from Hell, Hers lift the soul to Heav'n.40 Timotheus, the Greek musician praised in Dryden's... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 224 страница
...incline their ear : Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire . While solemn airs improve the sacred fire \ And Angels lean from heav'n to hear. Of Orpheus...no more let poets tell, To bright Cecilia greater power is giv'n ; His numbers rais'da shade from hell , Her's lift the soul to heav'n. ALE*£*ANDER's... | |
| 1907 - 750 страница
...make despair and madness please: Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. * * * * Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell, To bright Cecilia greater power is given; II is numbers raised a shade from hell. Hers lift the soul to heaven. Is there not... | |
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