 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...  Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins - Page 427edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - 1823 - 548 pages
...appears to me, can claim, as perfectly descriptive of her powers, those noble lines of Milton : — " In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Who, that has heard the sweet strife between the voice and the instrument, when. she has been accompanied... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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....chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orphens' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...Mod. Poets, p. 194. T. Warton. 135. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, &c.] Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul...self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed 140 145 So also in the Mask, speaking of Circe and the Sirens, Who as they sung, would take the prison'd... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 67 pages
...imagery, knew better than any other man how to clothe them, according to his own beautiful expression, 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 of the... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1824 - 58 pages
...imagery, knew better than any other man how to clothe them, according to his own beautiful expression, If 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 of the... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...poets dream, On suinHer eves, by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Johnson's Jearned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : Thai Orpheus, self may heave his head From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespear, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Sliakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumlier on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won Hie ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pages
...wellknown poem, entitled 1'Allegro — And ever against eating cares Lap me in .soft Lydian aira -. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Such, in most parts of Ae world, has been the effect of climate and surrounding scenery. But there... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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....sweetness long drawn out, "With wanton heed, and giddy cunnivg, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul... | |
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