| George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...cares, Lap me in foft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verfe, ti Such as the melting foul may pierce I In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked fweetnefs...That Orpheus' felf may heave his head From golden flumber on a bed Of heap'd Elyfian flow'rs, and hear Such ftrains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...wood-notes wild. And ever againft eating cares, 135 Lap me in foft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verfe, Such as the meeting foul may pierce In notes, with...a winding bout Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out, 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, ^"twitting a ^ t... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1790 - 752 pages
...eating cares " Lap me ia loft Lydian airs, " Marrltd to immortal verfe, " Such a> the meeting foul mar pierce* " In notes with many a winding bout . " Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out." MALONE. No love toward others in that bofom fits, That on himfelf fuch murderous fhame commits 7 .... | |
| Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...Curaequc* SiAefpcay. And ever againft eating cares Lap me in foft Lydiau airs, Married to immortal verfe, Such as the meeting foul may pierce , In notes, with many a winding bo t Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out With wanton heed, and giddy cunning,, The melting voice thro'... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...waters murmuring. Again, There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voic'dquire below. Dr. J. WARTON. In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out, * 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwifting all the... | |
| 1793 - 376 pages
...wood-notes wilde. And ever againft eating cares, 135 Lap me in foft Lydian aires, Married to immortal verfe, Such as the meeting foul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of lincked fweetnefs, long drawn out, 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... | |
| Walter Whiter - 1800 - 614 pages
...precisely in the same sense. ^" says Hesychius, " In notes, with many a winding bbut " Of linked sweetness. long drawn out; " With wanton heed and giddy cunning, " The melting voice thro' mazes running." TO To Corbis must be referred Corbita ' navis oneraiia' (Xavis capiens.')' The... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...The defcriptign is as follows : —-— And ever againjl eating cares, Lap me in foft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked fweetnefs...chains that tie •- - The hidden foul of harmony. Let us parallel this with the foftnefs, the winding iurface, the unbroken continuance, the eafy gradation... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...from another. The defcription is as follows ; ever aga'mft eating cares, Lap me in foft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked fweetnefs...giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running j Untwifdng all the chains that tie The hidden foul of harmony. •Let us parallel this with the foftnefs,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 562 pages
...The immortal Milton likewife defcribes the melody of muüc, in a iimi» Jar elegant manner thus : " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out, Witli wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, • Untwilling all the... | |
| |