 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...blow, And with your ninefold harmony 131 Make up full confort to th'Angelike fymphony. 14. For if fuch holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And fpeckl'd vanity Will ficken foon and die, And leprous fin will melt from earthly mould, And Hell it... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 342 pages
...have power to touch our senses so,) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow ; And with your nine-fold harmony Make up full consort to th' angelic symphony." — (Milton.) Herder, in his comparison of Klopstock and Milton, has said :... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...accompanying the creation in Paradise Lost. Ring out ye Crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, (If ye have power to touch our senses so) And let...chime Move in melodious time; And let the Bass of Heav'n's deep Organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th'Angelic symphony.... | |
 | Edward A. Lippman - Music - 1994 - 564 pages
...Christian conceptions — by the music of angels: Ring out ye crystal spheres. Once bless our human ears, (If ye have power to touch our senses so) And let...harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. In "At a Solemn Music" (i650-33), Milton presents a more complex series of images: Blest pair of sirens,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...burning axle-tree could bear. (1. 49-56) 39 Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears er (1. 97-104) 40 And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. But now begins; for from this happy... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...Once bless our human ears, (lines 115-6) the poet implores in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity': For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell itself... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...of the spheres: Ring out, ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to charm our senses so); And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full concert with the angelic... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...the long line, but he does so often enough to excite our admiration. We do not expect the impossible: For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould, And hell itself... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 350 pages
...heaven's organ to keep them in time and tune: Ring out ye Chrystall sphears, Once bless our human ears, (If ye have power to touch our senses so) And let...your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the Base of Heav'ns deep Organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th'Angelike... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...surely is surprising that the beatific vision itself should consist largely in the absence of evil: For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould And Hell it... | |
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Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort... 
