When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell ; Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the muse's painting ; By turns they felt the glowing... Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 22edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
| William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...thy scene-full world with thee! THE PASSIONS. AN ODE FOR MUSIC. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined; Till once, 't is said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...cunning, to seem to know that he doth not BACON. 106. The Passions. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The passions oft,...the muse's painting By turns they felt the glowing rnind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined. Till once, 'tis said, when all were fired, Filled with... | |
| Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...rise the Hector of the future age ! POPE'S HOMER. THE PASSIONS. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...magic cell ; Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possest beyond the Muse's painting. By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised,... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1855 - 520 pages
...hideous outcry rushed between 58. THE PASSIONS. — Collins. When Music, heavenly maid ! was young, — While yet, in early Greece, she sung, The Passions...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... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...cunning, to seem to know that he doth not BACON. 106. The Passions. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The passions oft,...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...to hear her shell, t Throng'd around her magic cell, Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possest beyond the Muse's painting: By turns they felt the...refined. Till once, 'tis said, when all were fired, Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatch'd her instruments of... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...scene from every future view. THE PASSIONS.4 AN ODE FOR MUSIC. WHEN Music, heavenly maid ! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic shell ; (1 ) Like his own, <tc.—ie like that descrihed hy Milton in " Paradise Lost " (set p. 391).... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...Never " by the street of By-and-bye ! THE PASSIONS. BY COLLrN'S. WHEN Music, heavenly maid ! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...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... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...THE PASSIONS: AN ODB. 1. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she song, The Passions oft, to hear her shell,™ Thronged around...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... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...To find this but a dream ! MILTON. 15. THE PASSIONS, AN ODE. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined; Till once, 't is said, when all were fired, Filled -with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round... | |
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