 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
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...Southeiy, are the best in the language. ODE ON 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 wind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined; Till once, 't is said, when all were fired, Filled with... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...sublimest and most elevated strain : — ODE ON THE PASSIONS. When Music, heavenly maid ! was yonng, 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 his own... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...every lip. j. ROSS BEOWTJS. CLXXXVII. — THE PASSIONS : AN ODB EN 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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...green Innisfuil ! 40. ODE ON THE PASSIONS. — William Collilu. WHEN Music, Heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft,...trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the Muse's [minting, By turns, they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined : Till once, 't... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...every lip. j. ROSS BROWNE CLXXXVII. — THE PASSIONS: AN OD» ; 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,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...the diction, or the apt management of the rhythm. Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed1 beyond the Muse's painting; By turns they felt the...'tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt,8 inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And as... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1860 - 422 pages
...thy scene-full world with thee ! THE PASSIONS. AN ODE FOB MUSIC. N 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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...former power. He died in 1759. THE PASSIONS. AN ODE FOR MUSIC. 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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...His odes and eclogues are highly prlzad. That on The Passions Is one of the finest in the language. Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond...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 his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...green Innisfail ! 40. ODE ON THE PASSIONS. — William Cullini. 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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