 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...sound, And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness rul'd the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear, his hand its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back rccoil'd, he knew not why, Even at the sound himself had made. Next Anger... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...sound. And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness rul'd the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear, his hand its skill to try, Amid the chords bcwilder'd laid, And back recoil'd, he knew not why, Even at the sound himself had made. Next Anger... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...power, 70 First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back recoil'd he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made. Next Anger rush'd : his eyes on fire, In lightnings, own'd his secret stings : In one rude clash he struck the... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...expressive power. Tirst Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back recoil'd he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made. Next Anger rush'd : his eyes on fire, In lightnings, own'd his secret stings : In one rude clash he struck the... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...of sound, And as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for madness rul'd the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. first Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords hewilder'd lay, And hack recoil'd, he knew not why, Ev'n at the sound himself had made. Next Anger... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...expressive pow'r. First Fear, his hand its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back recoil'd, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made. Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings ; In rude clash he struck the lyre,... | |
 | 1806 - 184 pages
...sound ; And as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness rul'd the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear, his hand its skill to try, Amid the chords hewilder'd laid, And hack recoil'd, he knew not why. E'en at the sound himself had made. Next Anger... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...sound J And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness rul'd the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back recoil'd, he knew, not why, Ev'n at the sound himself had made. ' Next Anger... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...pow'r. First, FEAR his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid; And hack recoil'd, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made. Next, ANGER rush'd, his eyes, on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings; In one rude clash he struck the lyre,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...hint to the Ode to Fear, and in his " Passions" to have very finely copied an idea here,— <• " First Fear, his hand its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid And back recoiled, he knew not jvhy E'en at the sound himself had made." Ode to the Passions. The stanza in Beattie's " Minstrel,"... | |
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tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for madness ruled the hour) Would prove... 
