 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...  The Minor Poems of John Milton - Page 55by John Milton - 1887 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...Lap me in soft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; . With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...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 Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with a winding bout Of linked sweetneß long drawn out, i4o With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that ty The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus, self may heave his head 1 45 From golden slumbers on a... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, x With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, * The melting...through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that ty The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus" self may heave his head *-V s Prom golden slumber on... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...the melting 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...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Music is the living voice of the beautiful, and tends to soothe and melt, to cheer and animate. Martin... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through'mazes running, Untwisting all the chains.that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self...head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...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...of harmony ; That Orpheus 'self may heave his head Frond' golden slumbers on a bed Of lieajj'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such. strains as would have won... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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...slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Of PLUTO, to have quite set free His half-regain'd EURYDICE. These delights if thou canst give, MIRTH,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...melting soul may pierce r In notes , with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out , TVith wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...running. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden souls of Harmony : That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden, slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through maces running, Untwisting all the chains that lie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumher on a hed Of heap'd Elyian flowers and hoar Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...love such a woman ? what, to make thee an instrument, and play false itraini upon thte ? SLattfeart. Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of hcap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the car Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
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