| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1837 - 284 pages
...it — it is just like Milton's description — ' A linked sweetness long drawn out — * » * * Its melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." I should like you to see her, Bertha — I can't help thinking you would like her excessively." —... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, 120 weeds] Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul...of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head i-is From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won... | |
| 642 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy canning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." MILTON'S ALLEGRO. The ITALIAN OPERA has still continued the great central attraction of our pleasure-seekers... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 292 pages
...gradations of ascent and descent at pleasure. Milton describes these excellencies when he eulogises " The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Similar remarks may be made as to the second species of compass, viz. that relating to loudness and... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 296 pages
...gradations of ascent and descent at pleasure. Milton describes these excellencies when he eulogises " The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Similar remarks may be made as to the second species of compass, viz. that relating to loudness and... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Rain] From the Messaggiero of Tasso. ' Piovano quaggiu della lor virtu.' Black's Life of Tasso, ii. 47& Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul...of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head us From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...created, so that at the close even Orpheus becomes, not a singer, but a listener! For the speaker wishes That Orpheus self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flowres, and hear Such streins as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
| Peter le Huray, James Day - 1988 - 420 pages
...notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Let us parallel this with the softness, the winding surface, the unbroken continuance, the easy gradation... | |
| John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...parallel evocation of Orpheus in the closing lines of VAllegro calls up music and lyric poetry to make one hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. We are reminded that the formulation in // Penseroso suppresses the fact that... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. -1 } .P} . 0 (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo;... | |
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