 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky. And heav'nly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who...is the pow'r of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god : Sublime on radiant spires he rode : When he to fair Olympia pressM : And stamp'd an... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...tuneful quire With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above— Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god; Sublime on radiant spires he rode When... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode When... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...tuneful choir, With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above, (Such is the power of mighty love.) A dragon's fiery form belied the god;c Sublime on radiant spires he rode,0 When... | |
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Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above, Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's... 
