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" 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 as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton... "
Chaucer to Burns - Page 110
edited by - 1876
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspcare, . Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew. r.ruil....Say I die* true. My love was false, but I was firm, slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such »trains as would hare won the ear Of Pluto,...
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may have his head, From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains, as would...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In note.-, ace, Doubling the native terror of hell's face ; Rivers...chains was known, The souls amidst their tortures trom golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the...
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The claims of the gospel on the young

Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 pages
...have a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection ; a music such as Milton describes — " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1847 - 490 pages
...a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection; a music such as Milton describes — " Jn notes, with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy...
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L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves bv haunted stream. And ever,, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...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-regain'd...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting *oul my pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."— ED. t In music, a flight is when the different parts of a composition follow each other, each repeating...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest SUakspcare, Fancy's child, Warble liis when his back a turned, joys that he is so well rid...unfeared, he counterfeits a smiling welcome, and excuse slumbers on a bed Of hcap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,...
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Poetry for schools

Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...anxiety. Se, without cura. 4 Weeds, garments. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydiani airs, Married to immortal verse; Such as the meeting...that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' 2 self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains...
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Remains of William S. Graham: With a Memoir...

William Sloan Graham - 1849 - 302 pages
...to this of Milton, after "the impetuous recoil and jarring sound" of his lines already quoted — " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...voice through mazes running, * Untwisting all the chords that tie The hidden soul of harmony!" And Coleridge, who betrayed the length of his ears by...
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