| 642 pages
...they make llteir game. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " Then to ihc well-trod stage anon." " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy canning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 135 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, MO With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, 120 weeds] Troilus... | |
| John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 pages
...way they make (heir game, PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " Then to ihe well-trod stage anon." " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy canning, The melting voice through mazes running, Uatwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 135 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, H0 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, i90 weeds] Troilus... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood-notes wild....That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...develope the feelings of the writer ; that it is only while we listen to " airs Such as the melting soul may pierce. In notes with many a winding bout...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" it is only, I say, while listening to such airs as these, that we can follow the Lyric poet in his... | |
| Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 pages
...thought and imagery, knew better than most other men, how to breathe forth his thoughts and images, " In notes, with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" when we see a master of English eloquence, thus gifted, choosing a dead language, — the dialect... | |
| Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...most other men, how to breathe forth his thoughts and images, " In notes, with many a winding bont, Of linked sweetness, long drawn out, With wanton heed...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" when we see a master of English eloquence, thus gifted, choosing a dead language, — the dialect... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; 8uch hty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling...the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every hie head From golden slumber on a bed Of hcap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson'a learned sock be on. Or sweetest Shakspeare, Τ0 slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
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