 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
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock bo on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton hoed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspere, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood-notes wild....may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...See Keightley's Fairy Mythology, Art. Kohold. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian 1 airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...dale. ***** And ever against eating cares, Lap mo in soft Lydiau airs, Married to immortal verse, Buch as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have rung the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with theo I mean to live. FROM MILTON. CCLXXXVI.— IL PENSEROSO.... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto to have quite set... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...different object, as a resource against the daily trials and petty annoyances of life, exclaims : — " Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." There is an exquisite symbolism in this last passage. The idea is that the " hidden soul " of a good... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - Education - 1910 - 260 pages
...Explain carefully, paying special attention to the meaning and suggestion of italicised words : (a) Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning. (6) Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops'... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - Music - 1988 - 420 pages
...another. The description is as follows: 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. Let us parallel this with the softness, the winding surface, the unbroken continuance, the easy gradation... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo;... | |
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