 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 heed and giddy cunning The melting voice...  Milton's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: An Essay - Page 206by Ida Langdon - 1924 - 342 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; . With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ;• Untwisting...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that ty The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus, self may heave his head 1 45 From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...heed, and giddy cunning, * The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that ty The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus" self may heave his head *-V s Prom golden slumber on abed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, andhear i .- LSuch strains as would have... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...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
...wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through'mazes running, Untwisting all the chains.that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...notes with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...of harmony ; That Orpheus 'self may heave his head Frond' golden slumbers on a bed Of lieajj'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such. strains as would have won... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...of harmony ; That ORPHEUS' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Of PLUTO, to have quite set free His... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...of harmony; That ORPHEUS' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out , TVith wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes 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... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through maces running, Untwisting all the chains that lie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumher on a hed Of heap'd Elyian flowers and hoar Such strains as would have won the ear... | |
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