 | John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...from tbt boughs &c] It mortality. *a » fiTft. 64. - tbt mat infelJtdfpkert,,-} And turn the adamantin fpindle round, . . On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulfion doth in mufic lie, To lull the daughters of Neceflity, And keep unfteddy Nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...the nine infolded fpheres, And fing to thofe that hold the vital fhears, 65 And turn the adamantin fpindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulfion doth in mufic lie, To lull the daughters of Neceflity, And keep unfteddy Nature... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1762 - 286 pages
...fyrens harmony, That fit upon the nine-enfolded Ipheres. And fing to thofe that hold the vital fheares, And turn the adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulsion doth in mufick lie, To lull the daughters of neceffity, * Birch't edit. vel,... | |
 | Horace - Poetry - 1766 - 288 pages
...poet. One fees then where Milton had been for that imagery in the ARCADES, then Men I To the celeftial Syrens' harmony, That fit upon the nine enfolded fpheres...men is wound. The beft comment on thefe verfes is a paffage in the x th Book of Plato's Republic, where this whole fyftem, of Syrens quiring to the fates,... | |
 | Horace - Poetry - 1776 - 282 pages
...Syrens' harmony, That fit upon the nine enfolded fpheres And fing to thofe that hold the vital mean, And turn the adamantine fpindle round, On which the...Syrens quiring to the fates, is explained or rather delivered. IV. We have feen a Mark of Imitation, in the allufion of writers to certain ftrange, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...the nine infolded fpheres, And fing to thofe that hold the vital fhears, 65 And turn the adamantin fpindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulfion doth in mufic lie, To lull the daughters of Necelfity, And keep unfteddy Nature... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...the nine infolded fpheres, And ling to thofe that hold the vital (hears, 65 And turn the adamantin fpindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulsion doth in muiic lie, To lull the daughters of Neceflity, And keep unfteddy Nature... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...the nine Infolded fpheres, And fing to thofe that hold the vital fhears, 65 And turn the adamantin fpindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulfion doth in muftc lie, To lull the daughters of Neceffity, And keep unfteddy Nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...upon the nine infolded fpheres, And fing to thofe that hold the vital (hears, 65 And turn the adamandn fpindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such fweet compulfion doth in mufic lie, To lull the daughters of Necefiity, And keep unfteddy Nature... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...harmony, » That fit upon the nine infolded fphercs, And fing to thofe that hold the vital (hears, And turn the adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and mtn is wound. Such fwect compulfion doth in mufic lie, To lull the daughters of Ntfccffity, And keep... | |
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And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. 
