 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pagine
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....That Orpheus' self may heave his head, From golden slumber on a bed L ALLEGRO. Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pagine
...the different kinds of music, and their respective influences on the merry and the meditative man. " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...That Orpheus' self may heave his head, From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pagine
...be on. Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, agninst in slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pagine
...with a sublimity unattempted by the former, and ravishes with a sweetness unattained by the latter. " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." The fact of there being no written life of Milton, is a matter of profound regret to the literary world.... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pagine
...may even apply to his performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music; " — Notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, whilst Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice, penetrating through ages and... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pagine
...stream. Then to the well -trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagine
...child, Warble his native wood-note« wild. And ever against eating cares, 1 ,:i l> me in soft Lydiau b E z aG M 2%u $ l ' s aӍ a a x imS bf 3 'm It祶Rve... Z ٹ Ta *NU F,ei6V 0i _ p s<-jx t" պGl a6nL" Z slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the car Of Pluto,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 pagine
...effects of Music subtly sweet, or solemnly elevating, as Milton, when in L Allegro he exclaims, — " Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse....and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes run. Untwisting all the charms which tie The hidden soul of harmony." Or when in H Penteroso, in another... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pagine
...sweetness and prolonged grace of those enchanting compositions. To us, a Greek choral song is composed of "soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse ; Such...long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, in the form ordinarily given to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pagine
...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, 7 Or sweeteet Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
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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 link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... 
