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
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 13,5 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul...winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, 140 of this line as regarding the moon; and the five next lines tend to warrant the general contents of... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...meeting soul may pierce, In not'-s, with many a winding bout . Of linked sweetness long drawn out, ) 111 "With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The- melting...chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpht us' self may heave his head 14& From golden slumber un a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...airs married to verse. The general drift, however, of the concluding lines of the poem from the 136th With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tye The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head 145 From golden slumber on a... | |
| Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...young shepherd's careless harp : the sprightly effusions Of linked sweetness long drawn out, \V it li wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...all the chains that tie, The hidden soul of harmony. To repeat the histories current among the ancients, in which the power of music was effectual to raise... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...child, Warble- his native wood notes wild. And ever, against eating carts, 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 Tinted sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, Themeltingvoice through mazes... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 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... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 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... | |
| England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...phenomenon."— LEIOH HOST'S BYBO.N. 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," so illustrated as in the last line of Gay'i " Black-eyed Susan," — " Adieu ! she cried, and waved... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting sonl 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 mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...and down as if it had itself wings. Milton has himself given us the theory of his versification — " Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with...winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out." Dr. Johnson and Pope would have converted his vaulting Pegasus into a rocking-horse. Read any other... | |
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