 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...Fall by the votes of their degenerate line. ODES ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1708, DESCEND, ye Nine! descend and sing ; The breathing...sadly-pleasing strain • ( Let the warbling lute complain; Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the roofs all around The sbrill echoes rebound ; While in more lengthen'd... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...dead. [ 215 J ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. ' AND OTHER PIECES OF MUSIC. , (Written in the year 1708.] I, ye Nine! descend, and sing; The breathing instruments...voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre I In a sadly-pleasing strain, Let the warbling lute complain! Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...see thee weep ! ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAT. IWrtttm in the Year IT08.] f ' AKD OTHER PIECES FOR MUSIC. DESCEND, ye Nine! descend and sing; The breathing instruments inspire, Wake into voice each silent suing, And sweep the sounding lyre ! In a sadly-pleasing strain Xet the warbling lute complain ; Let... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, imenvied, by the Muse he lov'd.' ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DA Y, 1703. DESCEND, ye Nine ! descend and sing; The breathing...voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre ! la a sadly-pleasing strain Let the warbling lute complain ; Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, unenvied, by the Muse he lov'd.' ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. 1708. DESCEND, ye Nine ! descend and sing ; The breathing...voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre ! la a sadly-pleasing strain , Let the warbling lute complain ; Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...these fields I sung the sylvan strains. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, MDCCVIIL. And other Pieces for Music. DESCEND, ye Nine! descend, and sing; The breathing instruments inspire; Wake into voice each sjlent string, And sweep the sounding lyre! In a sadly-pleasing strain • Let tlie warbling lute complain:... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...CHAP. XXX«,, ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. DESCEND, ye Nine! descend and sing j The breathing instuments inspire, Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre t In a sadly-pleasing strain L«t !he warbling lute complain: Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Return in all thy simple state ! Confirm the tales her sons relate ! ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. [POPE.] DESCEND, ye Nine ! descend and sing ; The breathing...sadly-pleasing strain Let the warbling lute complain : Let the loud trumpet sound, Till the roofs all around The shrill eehos rebound : While in more lengthen'... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...at one gasp be o'er, The muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more ! ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. T\ESCEND, ye Nine ! descend and sing; ^ The breathing instruments...sadly-pleasing strain Let the warbling lute complain; Let the load trumpet sound, -\ Till the roofs all around fr The shrill echoes rebound ; y While in... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - 1809 - 612 pages
...»erwetíet, unb beren v I, wofyt gar if)ve ©ejlaít unb SSefyanblung in iiio3efud;ten 28orten fdjilbert : Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing The breathing instruments inspire, Wake into voice eaeh tuent string, And sweep the sounding lyre. In a sadly - pleasing strain * Let the tearbtinq tute... | |
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ON ST CECILIA'S DAY, MDCOVIH. i. DESCEND, ye Nine! descend and sing ; The breathing instruments inspire, Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre! In a sadly-pleasing strain Let the warbling lute complain : Let the loud trumpet... 
