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... The Indicator - Page 189edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity; And keep unsteady Nature to her law, 70 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 blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise 75 Whose lustre... | |
| John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...puissant words, and murmurs made to bless ; But else, in deep of night, when drowsiness Hath lock'd up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Syrens'...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... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 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...can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear.' 1 With his style, his subjects differed ; he compacted and ennobled the poet's domain as well as his... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 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.'1 With. his style, his subjects differed ; he compacted and ennobled the poet's domain as well... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1872 - 254 pages
...in, we caunot hear it." And Milton, in the Arcades, 68- 73 : " Such sweet compulsion doth in mnsic lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep...tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross, unpurgèd ear." Ut me recepi. B. § 121. Z. § 506. (2). Intervallis .... distinctis : Composed of... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...compulsion doth in musick lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, TO And the low world in measured motion draw After the...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, 75 Whose... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...compulsion doth 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... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 758 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 un purged ear; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless highth of her immortal praise,... | |
| Elizabeth Kerr Coulson - 1876 - 332 pages
...attained in his own art, thought him too much engrossed by it. He felt with our later Milton — " Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie To lull the...can hear, Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." (MILTON, Arcades.) The sounds emitted by the organ, under his hands, were worthy of so profound a master.... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1877 - 620 pages
...locked up mortal sense, then listen 1 To the celestial Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear." Sir T. Browne, in his Rdigio Medici, says : " It is my temper, and I like it the better, to affect... | |
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