 | Edward A. Lippman - Music - 1994 - 564 pages
...those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly; That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly...answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportioned sin Jarred against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair music that all... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Spirits that wear victorious Palms, Hymns devout ana holy Psalms Sinjtin? everlastingly; O* <-> ^J -/ That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly...answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportion d sin Jarr'd againtt natures chime, and with harsh din Broke we fair musick that all... | |
 | William Kilpatrick - Education - 1993 - 372 pages
...vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Why not? Because, in Milton's words, . . . disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair musick that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayed. Milton concludes:... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 316 pages
...suggests what might make that observance more likely. The Fall of humankind occurred when disproportion^ sin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh...music that all creatures made To their great Lord. (19-22) The regeneration of humankind will progress when "we soon again renew that Song" which acknowledges... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...noise: As once we did, till disproportioned sin Jarred against nature's chime, and with harsh din 20 Broke the fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord; whose love their morion swayed In perfect diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience and their state of good. O... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...of run-on lines the emotion builds to an exclamation, which then sweeps us on to the alexandrine : That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly...answer that melodious noise, As once we did, till disproportioned sm Jarred against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair music that all... | |
 | R. L. Brett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 280 pages
...was once part of this harmony, but now sin has silenced the music until Milton's prayer is answered: That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly...melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportion'd sin Broke the fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord. The hope of the earlier Idylls for... | |
 | Jeff Astley, Timothy Hone, Mark Savage - Music - 2000 - 284 pages
...interprets the entire story of creation (the state of 'perfect diapason'), fall (the 'harsh din' that 'broke the fair music that all creatures made / to their great Lord') and salvation (which is to be brought back 'in tune with heav'n') through the imagery of music. Another... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 388 pages
...undisturbed Song of pure concent, Aye sung before the sapphire-color'd throne To him who sits thereon . . . That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly...music that all creatures made To their great Lord . . . O may we soon again renew that Song, And keep in tune with Heav'n . . ,65 In the following chapters,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...those just Spirits that wear victorious Palms, Hymns devout and holy Psalms 15 Singing everlastingly; That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly...answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportion 'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din 20 Broke the fair music that... | |
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Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly ; That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise ; As once we did, till... 
