| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1844 - 790 pages
...effects of Music subtly sweet, or solemnly elevating, as Milton, when in L Allegro he exclaims, — " Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse....and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes run. Untwisting all the charms which tie The hidden soul of harmony." Or when in H Penteroso, in another... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...pomp, and feast, and revelry, With masque and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness lone; drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...sights as youthful poets dream Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, 7 Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his...notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness lone, drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...eves by haunted stream, Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on,i Or sweeteet Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes...the meeting soul may pierce , In notes with many a ieinding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. The remark of Dr. Johnson, that... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may have his head, From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains, as would... | |
| Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 pages
...have a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection ; a music such as Milton describes — " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy... | |
| 1847 - 490 pages
...a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection; a music such as Milton describes — " Jn notes, with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting *oul my pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."— ED. t In music, a flight is when the different parts of a composition follow each other, each repeating... | |
| William Sloan Graham - 1849 - 302 pages
...to this of Milton, after "the impetuous recoil and jarring sound" of his lines already quoted — " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...voice through mazes running, * Untwisting all the chords that tie The hidden soul of harmony!" And Coleridge, who betrayed the length of his ears by... | |
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