 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 linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through...  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 342by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...sure cause, of the second being asked for ; then 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...'ilton has himself given us the theory of his versification " Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out." Dr. Johnson and Pope would have converted his vaulting Pegasus into a rocking-horse. Read any other... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 linked sweetness,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head, From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...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...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus' self may heave 4iis head From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap "d Eljsian flowers,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In y, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent...along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, tic The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 linked sweetness...giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running s Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : Thjg^rpheus' self may heave his head... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pages
...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 running. Allegro, Shakespeare possessed evidently nothing of the science, but was deeply infected with the love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...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 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
...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 linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and... | |
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