 Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!  The Practical Teacher - Page cccxi1884Full view - About this book
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...sacred lays, The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. ALL Nature speaks in music, — every tone She utters, from the crashing thunder's roar, Or Ocean's... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. POEM ON THE DEATH OF MRS. KILLIGREW. I. THOU youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 450 pages
...such as handle the harp and organ.'' As; then, it commenced with creation, so, says Dry den, — " When the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant...live, the living die. And music shall untune the sky." But these observations need not be extended. Our second point as to its influence, — whether great... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 460 pages
...then, it commenced with creation, so, says Dryden, — " When the last and dreadful hour This erumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." But these observations need not be extended. Our second point as to its influence, — whether great... | |
 | William Gardiner - Musicians - 1853 - 408 pages
...motion of the second orb (in the second line) by the instrumental part, decorating the full chorus. " So when the last and dreadful hour, This crumbling pageant shall devour." The resolution of the chord upon the word dreadful, in the chorus following, is literally dreadful; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...the antithesis of "music untuning'' had found some other place: " As from the power of sacred lays So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his Eleonora, of which the following lines discover... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pages
...And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless' d above ; So when the last and dreadful hoar This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. THE FAIR STRANGER : ADDRESSED TO LOUISA QUEBOUAILLE, AFTERWARD* DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH, A BONO. HAPPY... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...great Creator's praise To all the blex'd above: BSo, when the last and dreadful hour 1 ,.ai fc _j.. . ^ This crumbling pageant shall devour The trumpet shall...live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky' his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his of which the following lines discover their Author:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...ahove ; So when the last and dreadful hour This erumhling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall he heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. SONG FAREWELL, FAIR ARMIDA.1 FAREWELL, fair Armida, my joy and my grief, In vain I have lov'd you,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling...live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. J. Dryden LXIV ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEMONT Forget not : In thy book record their groans Who were... | |
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