 | Edward Young - 1812 - 814 pages
...inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, ' letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. " Notwithstanding Young had said, in his ' Conjectures on original Composition,' that ' blank verse... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1816 - 390 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime than the poet, and that, in his ordinary conversation, "Letting down the golden chain from high, " He drew his audience upward to the sky." On this occasion, at the request of these ladies, the author produced his Resignation, above-mentioned,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1780 - 544 pages
...appointed for a General Fast." Pp. 16, 20, 21, Thus did Dr. Price exemplify the /with finest of Dryden : " For, letting down the golden chain from high> He drew his audience upward to the sky." PREFACE* TO THE GREEK HARMONY. [1777.] WHATEVER may be thought of the work which I now present to the... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 pages
...strike the mind of every reader, as replete with beauty. With eloquence innate, his tongue was annVI ; Tho' harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd,...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears , (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David... | |
 | Fair play (pseud.) - 1820 - 316 pages
...With eloquence innate his tongue was armed, " Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed : " For, letting down the golden chain from high, " He drew his audience upward to the sky." Goldsmith describes the clergyman who was so justly " to all the country dear," as a man that marched... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his " Con" jectures on original Composition," that "blank " verse... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...sanctity, Mild was his accent , and his action free. fVith eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept , yet the preacher charm'd ; For , letting down the golden chain from highi He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gonpel rather than the law, And forc'd... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...sanctity ; Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. «. For,...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres,) For David... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher chann'd. wr. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres,) For David... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Tho' harsh tbe precept, yet the preacher charmed": For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David... | |
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