 | 1863 - 478 sider
...mother-wit, and arts unknown before. I.et old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. "LOVE STILL HAS SOMETHING." BY SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. [SiR CHARLES SEDI EV was born at Aylesford, in Kent,... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 sider
...or contrary objects are contrasted, to make them show one another to greater advantage, thus : — ' He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.' EXEHCISES.* Select the figures of speech from the following sentences, and name of what kind each is.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 sider
...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. VENI CEEATOE SPIEITTJS. Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come,... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 sider
...nature's mother-wit, andjirts 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." And yet it was a dispute about an ORGAN that gave birth to Protestant Methodism. A dispute about an... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sider
...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 ! A* ODE TO SAINT CECILIA. l/ROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : When Nature... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 sider
...mother wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheiis yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. DHYDEN. Jons DKYDEN, one of the great masters of English verse, was torn at Oldwineklc, in Northamptonshire,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 sider
...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. JOHN °DRrDEN. CCXXVII.— LORD "CHATHAM. LORD CHATHAM has been generally regarded as the most powerful... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1866 - 144 sider
...alternate rhymes : — Let old | Timo' | theus yield | the pri'ze, | Or bo'th | divi' de | the cro'wn : | He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down. — DKYDEN. This metre, which is also called Service Metre, owing to its use in the English metrical... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 sider
...6. A name recalled by Dives' dinner bell ; 7. I'll see no more the land I love so well. DEC 180. " He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down." 1. Here, stop that vehicle ! I want to ride. 2. A place where Libyan monks were wont to abide. 3. One... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 sider
...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. L'ALLEGKO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,... | |
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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... 
