 | 1917 - 342 σελίδες
...page 106. » in pictorial form the ancestry of our Lord as recorded both by St. Matthew and St. Luke. From Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred...shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove. —Pope's " Messiah." Representations of this subject occur from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries... | |
 | Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 σελίδες
...upon their minds, The fear of vengeance. PROPHECY OF PEACE Extract from The Messiah ALEXANDER POPE FROM Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies; Th' ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic dove. Ye Heav'ns!... | |
 | George Carver - 1926 - 504 σελίδες
...maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire, 5 Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times, the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son! From Jesse's root beheld a branch arise, Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies: IO Th' ethereal spirit o'er... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1928 - 272 σελίδες
...sky. usat I'hoto : F. II. Crossley. PART OF JESSE WINDOW. tiiKsiEK ABBEY, OXFORDSHIRE. JESSE WINDOWS. From Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred...with fragrance fills the skies ; The ethereal spirit on its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove. — Pope's Messiah. From the beginning... | |
 | 1885 - 1084 σελίδες
...the most perfect symbols of the English mind of that period. When in the Messiah we read, — " Rapt into future times the bard begun, A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a eon 1 Swift fly the years and rise the expected morn ! 0 spring to light, auspicious babe, be born... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 σελίδες
...Maids, Delight no more — O Thou my Voice inspire 5 Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd Lips with Fire! Rapt into future Times, the Bard begun; A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! 1 . Solyma] The latter part of the Greek name for Jerusalem, 'I 4. Pindus] A mountain in Thessaly... | |
 | 1880 - 532 σελίδες
...British public." No worse recommendation to English fame. Hence, forgive this trifle (Messiah) : " Rapt into future times, the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son I From Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies. The... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 σελίδες
...maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire! Rapt into future times, the bard begun: A Virgin shall...Ye heavens! from high the dewy nectar pour, And in oft silence shed the kindly shower! The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter,... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 σελίδες
...voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times, the bard began: A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son! From...sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies . . . The poem is crammed with allusions to Isaiah, and contains one of the few elaborate descriptions of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 2005 - 162 σελίδες
...Maids, Delight no more — O thou my Voice inspire 5 Who touch'd Isaiah 's hallow'd Lips with Fire! Rapt into future Times, the Bard begun: A Virgin shall...From Jesse's Root behold a Branch arise, Whose sacred Flow'r with Fragrance fills the Skies. 10 Th' Aetherial Spirit o'er its Leaves shall move, And on its... | |
| |
Aonian maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son... 
