Neue allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek, Volume 14

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Carl Ernst Bohn, 1795
 

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Page 371 - 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 mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 172 - Care. To me thy better gifts impart, Each moral beauty of the heart By studious thought refin'd : For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, For Pow'r, its amplest, best extent, An empire o'er my mind.
Page 170 - Thro' the thick fhades now wings his flight, And quits his time-fhook tow'r ; Where, fhelter'd from the blaze of day, In philofophic gloom he lay Beneath his ivy bow'r. With joy I hear the folemn found, Which midnight echoes waft around, And fighing gales repeat. Fav'rite of PALLAS ! I attend, And faithful to thy fummons, bend At WISDOM'S aweful feat.

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