Fancy's 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 may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With... A Household Book of English Poetry - Page 851870 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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... | |
| John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, l 3 ^ Married to immortal Verse, Such as the meeting soul...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, x With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, * The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...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...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Music is the living voice of the beautiful, and tends to soothe and melt, to cheer and animate. Martin... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. ' x And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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.that... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...loftiness of thought surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...winding bout, Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains... | |
| Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 pages
...sweetest SHAKSPEARE, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 pages
...sweetest SHAKSPEARE, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...Penseroso is, perhaps, equally happy with the following in L'Allegro : And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
| 1806 - 448 pages
...testimony to his complete knowledge of this science and its effects. " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wantun heed, nnd giddy cunning, The melting voice through makes running. Untwisting all the chains... | |
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