 | Stephen Gill - Literary Collections - 2006 - 417 pages
...crew of drunken revellers: But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice . . . (Paradise Lost, VII, 32-7) clamour... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 238 pages
...asks his muse to ward off: But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope where woods and rocks had ears To rapture till the savage clamor drowned Both harp and voice. ^Paradise Lost 7.32-37 Milton adds that... | |
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Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd... 
