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" Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of... "
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Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw, After tne heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear. li Milton's Genius of the Grove," says Warton, " being a spirit sent from Jove, and commissioned from...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...sing to those that hold the vital shears. And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the lute of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth...none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged car: And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Paradise regined, Samson Agonistes, Comus ...

John Milton - 1861 - 534 pages
...compulsion does in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity, And keep unsteady nature to her law, 70 And the low world in measured motion draw After the...none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...compulsion does in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity, And keep unsteady nature to her law, 70 And the low world in measured motion draw After the...none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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Milton's Poetical Works

John Milton - 1861 - 734 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze' The peerless highth of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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Complete Poetical Works

John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such music worthiest were to blare The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1864 - 520 pages
...deep of night, when drowsiness Hath lock'd up mortal sight, then listen I To the celestial Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres,...can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear." We should have expected perhaps that the personification in the passage before us would have given...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with illustr. by E.H. Corbould and J. Gilbert

John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, 7° And the low world in measured motion draw After the...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1864 - 518 pages
...Necessity, And keep unsteady nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the hear'nly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear." We should have expected perhaps that the personification in the passage before us would have given...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary ...

John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in musick lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep...none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerless highth of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...
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