 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 147by John Milton - 1832Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 508 pages
...Lydian airs; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton hand and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Beauty in motion consists of " a roundness of action," and beauty in feeling is experienced in touching... | |
 | Terence McMahon Hughes - Ireland - 1839 - 76 pages
...own peculiar style of excellence, " in many a winding bout," " With wanton heed and giddy cunning, My melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ! " I sang the following to the air of " The Light of other Days." I. The light of WHIGGERY is faded,... | |
 | John Freeman Milward Dovaston - 1839 - 76 pages
...thing like graceful melody. They were, however, " Married to immortal verse, ; Such as the melting 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 thro' mazes running. Untwisting all the chains... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...petty annoyances of life, exclaims : — " Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, ' Married to immortal verse ; ' Such as the meeting...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning. The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - Education - 1910 - 260 pages
...special attention to the meaning and suggestion of italicised words : (a) Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning. (6) Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - Music - 1988 - 420 pages
...cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...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
...of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, With wanton heed and giddy cunning. The melting voice through mazes running. Untwisting all the chains... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...childe, Warble his native Wood^notes wilde, And ever againsl eating Cares, Lap me in soft Lydian Aires, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Oflinckedsweetnes long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...(and not very subtle) warnings to regard L'Allegro's desires skeptically: Lap me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse. Such as the meeting soul...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains... | |
 | Paul Everett - Music - 1996 - 124 pages
...redolent of Milton's lines 139^4: In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning The melting voice...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Here (as in // penseroso) Milton is praising good music: its 'hidden soul' is released when it is composed... | |
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