| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...with your ninefold harmony Make up full concert to th' angelic symphony. For if such holy song Inwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould ; And... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...And with your ninefold harmony. Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song d t ; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould ; And... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...verse in the " Christmas Hymn" seems a prophecy Handel was sent to fulfil — " For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will molt from earthly mould ; And hell... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For if such holy song Inwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...T. 3. Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth, PL, iz. 40. For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold. 'iM- im Hi, Nativity.' a child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th' angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Inwrap our fancy long. Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould ; And hell... | |
| Literature - 1847 - 610 pages
...can only say of the hymn what itself says of the angels' singing — " For if such holy song Inwrapt our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold." And this peerless Ode has scarcely been acknowledged among us. It is not the least evil sign of the... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...your ninefold harmony. Make up full concert to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Envrrnp our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold; And speckled Vanity t Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1848 - 636 pages
...verse in the ' Christmas Hymn' seems a prophecy Handel was sent to fulfil — ' For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould: And hell... | |
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