 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 link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through...  Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People - Page 46by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...me in soft Lydian sirs, Married to immortal verse, Such as tlie meeting soul may pierce, In i-otcs with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long...and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes runnfng ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus' sell' may have... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...child, * Warble his native ivoud notes- wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lvdian airs-, Married to immortal verse. Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a iviudir.g bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pages
...sccke For powerful Circe, and let in aj Inner Temple irt is sufficiently marked. His songs are to be Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout, Of finked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tic : ) S From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...and married calm of states — ." Milton had perhaps these lines in his thoughts when he wrote : " And ever against eating cares " Lap me in soft Lydian...winding bout " Of linked sweetness long drawn out." MALONE. 6 — like a MAKELESS wife;] As a widow bewails her lost husband. Make and mate were formerly... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...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 Lydian...of harmony ; 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...Such as the meeting soul may pierce, • _ In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness lung drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus' self may heave hi> head From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd FJysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...Jonsou's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shafcspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native woodnotes wild. And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...sure cause of the second being asked for : llu.n the singer may give full scope to his genius, then " With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running," he may extasiate his audience, and then, if he has any power, that power will assuredly be deeply felt.... | |
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