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... Song / Well knows to still the wild winds when they roar , / And hush the waving Woods " ( 86–88 ) . It is the Attendant Spirit , commanding the beauty and power of Orphic song , who now recalls the meta- morphic relationship between ...
... Song / Well knows to still the wild winds when they roar , / And hush the waving Woods " ( 86–88 ) . It is the Attendant Spirit , commanding the beauty and power of Orphic song , who now recalls the meta- morphic relationship between ...
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... song is good enough for the woodland choristers , but not for Orpheus , who with his singing , not his lyre , held ... songs , not , Milton points out , by some magical power of his instrument . Given this context , the allusion to ...
... song is good enough for the woodland choristers , but not for Orpheus , who with his singing , not his lyre , held ... songs , not , Milton points out , by some magical power of his instrument . Given this context , the allusion to ...
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... song : " Carmine dum tali silvas animosque ferarum / Threicius vates et saxa se- quentia ducit " ( Meanwhile with such songs the Thracian bard en- tranced trees , the spirits of beasts , and stones to follow him , Met . 11.1-2 ) ...
... song : " Carmine dum tali silvas animosque ferarum / Threicius vates et saxa se- quentia ducit " ( Meanwhile with such songs the Thracian bard en- tranced trees , the spirits of beasts , and stones to follow him , Met . 11.1-2 ) ...
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