 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.  The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos - Page 175by Charles Burton - 1823 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...heavenly harmony This universal frame hegan. When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, C^Ae f And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was...In order to their stations leap, And Music's power ohey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame hegan ; From harmony to harmony Through... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...angels sit in order serviceable. SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA'S DA Y, 1687 From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony Of jarring atoms lay And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...stable Bright-harness'd angels sit in order serviceable. J. Milton SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA'S DAY, 1687 FROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal...order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. ^Trom harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. SHAKSPERE. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1687. FEOM harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame...Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony The universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1866 - 468 pages
...of clay, The soul shall reach its immortality. LESSON CLX, MUSIC OF NATURE. 1. FROM harmony,—from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began. When...dry. In order, to their stations leap, And Music's voice obey. From harmony,—from heavenly harmony DBTDEK. This universal frame began. From harmony... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 362 pages
...about, grow less and less, With here and there a pawn. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1687. I. FUOM harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame...Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, 5 The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold, and hot, and moist, and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...world would listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY (AllHIUGED). CXCV. — ODE ON CECILIA'S DAY. 1. FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...In order to their stations leap, And Music's power ohey. 2. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...CECILIA'S DAY, 1687 From harmony, from heav'niy harmony This universal frame began. When Nature undemeath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her...order, to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 10 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through... | |
 | Lawrence Kramer - Music - 2023 - 324 pages
...of this idea is exemplified in Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687), which describes how "cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, / In order to their stations leap" (9-1o) in response to the "tuneful voice" of the Creator. Text modernized from Dryden's Poetical Works,... | |
 | Daniel Albright - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...term: the great bass is comparable to the diapason in Dryden's "A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687": When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay,...voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead' . . . From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began; From harmony to harmony Through... | |
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