 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...cherubim, [array'd ; And sworded seraphim, [play'd, Are seen in glittering ranks, with wings disHarping, in loud and solemn quire, [Heir. With unexpressive...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, [keep. And bid the weltering... | |
 | Robert Mushet - Ethics, Ancient - 1847 - 524 pages
...pleasure loth to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close." And again, — ^ " Such music as 'tis said, Before was never made ; But...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, < And bid the weltering waves... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...to Heaven's new-bom heir. Such music, ae 'tis said, Before was never made, But when of old the eon« of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations...And the well-balanc'd world on hinges hung, And cast thc~dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. Ring out, ye crystal... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...quire, With unexpressive notes, to Heaven's new born Heir. Such music as 'tis said Never before was made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung : And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 356 pages
...quire, With unexpressive notes, to Heaven's new born Heir. Such music as 'tis said Never before was made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung : And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...themselves within the sea." The passage in Milton's " Ode on the Nativity," in which he speaks of - Such music (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung,'' will occur to every reader. In Allan Cunningham's " Lives of the British Painters," in his biography... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...sworded seraphim, Harping in lend and solemn quire, With unexpressive notes to heaven's new-Lorn Heir. Such music (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning song, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung, And... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...wings displayed, Harping in loud and solemn quire, With unexpressive notes to heaven's new-born Heir. Such music (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But...sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, 15* JOHN MILTON. And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...'Hymn on the Nativity,'bearing, of course, its original and true meaning :— While the Creator great cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. Stanza xii. 1. 134. Here the action of the waves is that of rolling to and fro. The latest instance... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1903 - 840 pages
...Hymn on the Nativity," bearing, of course, its original and true meaning : — While the Creator great cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. Stanza xii. 1. 124. Here the action of the waves is that of rolling to and fro. The latest instance... | |
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tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel... 
