 | Joseph Wildman - 1799 - 308 pages
...with very little violation of propriety, have been applied to the wonderful effect of her voice— " He raised a mortal to the skies." ** She drew an angel down." Such were Erasmus Inglebert, and the lovely Adelaide Faulkner: and such their happiness until the period... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. GRAND CHORUS. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. GRAND CHORUS. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventre&s of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...imagination are not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding. C \ A He raised a mortal to the skies. She drew an angel down. $ \_ In the first example, we find the emphatick word indifferent suggest an antithesis not expressed,... | |
 | John Brady - 1815 - 420 pages
...WithNature's motherwit,and arts unknown before. Let old TJMOTHEUS yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an Angel down.''' Clement, (230 NOVEMBER.) CLEMENT (Romanus), or ST. CLEMENT, the earliest and one of the most eminent... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. THE HERMIT. BY BEATTIE. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...without compass, and without dignity. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both' divide tilt crown ; He raised a mor'tal to the skies. She drew an angel down'. The following sentences afford examples where the emphasis changes the accent of the word. He shall... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...imagination are not so grots' as those of sense', nor so refined" as those of the understanding'. 4. He' raised a mortal* to the skies', She'' drew an angel' down'. SINGLE EMPHASIS* RULE.— When a, sentence is composed of a positive and negative part, the positive... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the jarisse, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. , I VENI CREATOR SPIRITtTS, PARAPHRASED. CREATOR Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first... | |
 | Music - 1823 - 512 pages
...for each of the four following lines — Let old Tiinotheus yield the prize Or both divide the crown, He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. Upon the vocal strength of the principals generally, I think it unnecessary to enlarge. I would, however,... | |
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At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. — Let old Timotheus yield... 
