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" Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of... "
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital sheers, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the...can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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The Tusculan disputations, book first ; the dreams of Scipio: and extracts ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Immortality - 1851 - 240 pages
...vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." And Milton, in the Arcades, 68-73 : " Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross, unpurgèd ear." Ut me recepi. B. § 121. Z. § 506. (2). Intervallis .... distinctis : Composed of...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 pages
...To hill the daughter of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law. And the low world In measuiM motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." Coleridge has approached the subject in lines which are worthy to stand by the side of those of Shakspere...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 600 pages
...lull th» daughter of Necessity, And keep uJUCawdy Nature to her law, And the low world in meaanuM motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurgc-d ear." Coleridge has approached the subject in lines which are worthy to stand by the tide...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...puissant words, and murmurs made to bless . But else, in deep of night, when drowsiness Hath lock'd up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Syrens'...none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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The poems and ballads of Schiller, tr. by sir E.B. Lytton. With a sketch of ...

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1852 - 416 pages
...measure thou discernest ? No ! Thou canst honour that in sport which thou forget'st in earnest.2 1 " Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." MILTON'S Arcades. - This poem is very characteristic of the noble ease with which Schiller often loves to surprise...
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Notes and Queries

Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 pages
...already quoted, has assigned a different reason; aud Milton closely follows him in the "Arcades." " After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." Indeed Milton had written an academic exercise at Cambridge, " De Conceutu Spha;rorum," in vhich he...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...quoted, has assigned a different reason ; and .Milton, closely follows him in the " Arcades." " After ihc heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." Indeed Milton had written an academic exercise at Cambridge, " De Concentu Sphajrorum," in which he...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and ..., Volume 2

John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...ever sing — a notion involving many and mysterious lessons. Such sweet compulsion doth in musick lie To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady...can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerless highth of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical ..., Page 109, Volume 2

John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...ever sing — a notion involving many and mysterious lessons. Such sweet compulsion dotl1 in musick lie To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady...can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerless highth of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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