Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string,... The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 109by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...informs the understanding. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 105 Such notes, as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Every allegory has therefore two senses, the literal and the mystical; the literal sense is like... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...informs the understanding. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 105 Such notes, as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Every allegory has therefore two senses, the literal and the mystical; the literal sense is like... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pages
...L'AUegrn. If to melancholy,— " Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek." ¡I Pnitroso. WAHli. [S] Milton, in his Paradiic Loti, В. IV. has very successfully ittroduced... | |
| 1818 - 616 pages
...raise Musa>us from his bower, Or bid the soul oí Orpheus sinjt Such notes as warbled to the string. Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek." MILTON. AMID the toils and turmoils of the world, and the disagreeable vicissitudes of this... | |
| James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 pages
...listened with impatience to the perversion of those harmonious sounds, which warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. But he was the gayest inhabitant of a place, where every countenance was shaded by the gloom... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...raise Musxus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek ' Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsifc,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...raise Musseus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek ! Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 pages
...L'Mltpo. if to melancholy, — " Or hid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek." II Paueroit. WAB U. i2] Milton, in his Paradiee Lotl, II. IV. has very successfully introduced... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...raise Musaeus from his bow'r, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek ; Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...raise Musœus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as warbled to the string, ot cease To weary him with my assiduous cries: But pray'r against his seek. Or call up him that left half told, The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife,... | |
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