| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...The description is as follows : ( • — And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...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... | |
| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout...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
...Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. ' x And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through'mazes running, Untwisting all the chains.that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus'... | |
| 1806 - 448 pages
...music, which will bear ample testimony to his complete knowledge of this science and its effects. " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." IS Allegro, zi. 135, et sej. Milton here shews his acquaintance with the distinguishing characteristic... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...descriptive Muse. No passage in II Penseroso is, perhaps, equally happy with the following in L'Allegro : And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden eoul of harmony. Bul, were my judgment to decide, I should award ihe palm, though with some hesitation,... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson't learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wantun heed, nnd giddy cunning, The melting voice through makes running. Untwisting all the chains... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...descriptive Muse. No passage in II Penseroso is, perhaps, equally happy with the following in I/Allegro: And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed, and_giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...The description is as follows : ........ And ever against eating caret. Lap me in soft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...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... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Shakespear, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me.in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such...wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice thro' mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony: That Orpheus'... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's...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... | |
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