 | Moses Mendelssohn - German language - 1844 - 626 pages
...list'ning brethren stood around, And wond'ring on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound; Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. » What passion cannot music raise and quell! Sa« tft: 3Bie... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...listening bretbren stood around. And, wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God, they thought, there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell ? The trumpet's... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Holiness - 1851 - 474 pages
...listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Las than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, Which spoke so sweetly and so well." 3. Readily, and with entire strength of conviction, do... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot music raise and quell ? The trumpet's... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...list'ning brethren stood around, And, wond'ring, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound; Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. BBITANNIA KEDIVIVA. 1688. Our vows are heard betimes, and... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...brethren throng'd around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound ; Less than a God, they thought, there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That sung so sweetly and so well. Music, which gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1854 - 398 pages
...listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Ijess than a God they, thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." The first four lines of this always seem to me magnificently... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1854 - 454 pages
...listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.'* The first four lines of this always seem to me magnificently... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...listening brethren stood around, And wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound ; Less than a god they thought there could not dwell, Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well." In no respect did Dryden more rashly and fatally abandon... | |
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Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. 
