 Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 176by John Milton, John Mitford - 1851Full view - About this book
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...and Rocks had Ears To rapture, till the savage clamor drown'd Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend Her Son. So fail not thou, who thee implores: For thou art Heavn'ly, shee an empty dream. (7-32-39) The poet would be the son of a Muse able to regain for his... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...thou my Song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde...where Woods and Rocks had Eares To rapture, till the savage clamor dround Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend Her Son. So fail not thou, who... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - 1988 - 248 pages
...few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revelers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamor drowned Both harp and voice; nor could the Muse defend Her... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 292 pages
...id—and his destiny is to be torn to pieces by the maenads. But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde...where Woods and Rocks had Eares To rapture, till the savage clamor dround Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend Her Son. So fail not thou, who... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1993 - 162 pages
...creation. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of what wild Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Ears To rapture, till the savage clamor drown'd Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend Her... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 pages
...muse: But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wild Rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Ears To rapture, till the savage clamor drown'd Both Harp and Voice; nor could the muse defend Her... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 pages
...narrative: But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wild Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Ears To rapture, till the savage clamor drown'd Both Harp and Voice. (7.32-7) As he does in reference... | |
 | Janet Lungstrum, Elizabeth Sauer - 1997 - 376 pages
...narrative: But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wild Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Ears To rapture, till the savage clamor drown'd Both Harp and Voice. (7.32-37) The poet-narrator's... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 pages
...invocation (LM 3.33-36): the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice. Given their patent source in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2002 - 172 pages
...line: 'When Woods and rocks had ears to rapture'. His source is Paradise Lost, where Milton recalls 'that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard / In...Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Eares / To rapture' (vii 34-36): those lines were in Wordsworth's mind as he worked on these fragments (see fragment 4,... | |
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