 | Henry Rose - Architecture - 1843 - 174 pages
...richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. That Sir Walter Scott was impressed in the same way... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...~lasting a dim religious light : There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voic'd quire below, ln zQ `QM( C $ˈ c , [ j 1\ b UZ :@ O m [S \iMm W1 t : J R#l q : N eestacies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...the full-voiced choir beloir, In service high, and anthem cle•ir, Asmay with sweelness.throughmine ear, Dissolve me into extasies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes." At the period of which we speak, the want of mu$ic in tha services of the church seems to have been... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...windows richly dlght, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow. To the full voiced quire below, In service high, and anthems clear, As...with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes." ''All heav'n" is a vague expression, perhaps too... | |
 | John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...dight, Casting a dim religious light, — There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below; ? In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before my eyes." And to the name of Milton, may be added another,*... | |
 | Ralph P. Martin - Religion - 1982 - 256 pages
...music could bring to the enrichment of worship: There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high, and anthems clear. As...with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, 2. The complementary aspect is the expressive role of music-in-worship . Praise is now seen... | |
 | Thomas F. Healy - English poetry - 1986 - 180 pages
...richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. (11.155-166). The limits, however, that various groups... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
..."the full voic'd Quire" will, he hopes, inspire the contemplative mind to its highest reaches, and through mine ear Dissolve me into extasies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes. [164-66] Looking back now, we can see that the first poem has summed up a youthful world of Elizabethan... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...Penseroso, sought out (as we have seen) "the studious cloysters pale," there to "let the pealing Organ blow" As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into extasies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes.7 And Dryden's "bright CECILIA," in his poem "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687," rais'd the... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...would, of these lines from // Penseroso: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear. Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.3* In a state of musical ecstasy, according to the... | |
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With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me... 
