 And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through...  Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins - Page 427edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 pages
...have a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection ; a music such as Milton describes — " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection; a music such as Milton describes — " Jn notes, with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting *oul my pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."— ED. t In music, a flight is when the different parts of a composition follow each other, each repeating... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest SUakspcare, Fancy's child, Warble liis when his back a turned, joys that he is so well rid...unfeared, he counterfeits a smiling welcome, and excuse slumbers on a bed Of hcap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...anxiety. Se, without cura. 4 Weeds, garments. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydiani airs, Married to immortal verse; Such as the meeting...that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' 2 self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains... | |
 | William Sloan Graham - 1849 - 302 pages
...to this of Milton, after "the impetuous recoil and jarring sound" of his lines already quoted — " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...voice through mazes running, * Untwisting all the chords that tie The hidden soul of harmony!" And Coleridge, who betrayed the length of his ears by... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...variation and contrast of these sounds. " And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, ***** In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Melody is not only beautiful from its variety of originally beautiful sounds, but from its originally... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Johnson's learned sock be on; Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head JO From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating caree, Lap me in soft Lydian aim, n, for thy wounds arc balm. That which the world miscalls a jail, slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...proeeeded far in his pnritanism. 186 And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian1 airs, Manned to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce,...chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orphens'a self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear... | |
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