 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...wound ; Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lui) the daughter of Necessily, And keep unsleady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After Ihe heaveuly tune, which none can hear comme ses paroles. Celui, disait-il un peu plus tard, qui connaît... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Philosophy - 1864 - 520 pages
...the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear." We should have expected perhaps that the personification in the passage before us would have given... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1864 - 410 pages
...Thou canst honor that in sport which thou forget'st in earnest." i 1' Such sweet compulsion doth iu music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And...After the heavenly tune which none can hear Of human mold, with gross unpurged car." MILTON'S Arcades. 2 This poem is very characteristic of the noble ease... | |
 | Science - 1909 - 664 pages
...sits upon the nine infolded spheres. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughter of Necessity And keep unsteady Nature to her law,...can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear. Astronomy has always been the favorite science of the poets. The frame-work of Dante's " Paradise "... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteddy Nature to her law, 70 And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with grosse unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerles height of her immortal... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear. And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise Whose lustre... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...sense, then listen I To the celestial sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres. . . And the low world in measured motion draw After the...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear. At a solemn music too, expounds the Platonist doctrine that all earthly music is an echo or copy of... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...the vital shears And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...keep unsteady Nature to her law And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mold with gross unpurged... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteddy nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with grosse unpurged ear . . . [63-73] One cannot miss the implications of the Orphic theory of music so... | |
 | V. Coelho - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 276 pages
...the vital shears. And turn the adamantine spindle round. On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mold, with gross unpurged... | |
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Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of... 
