 Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. 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 140 With...  A Household Book of English Poetry - Page 851870 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, agninst eating cares, B With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting- voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...own description of music; " — Notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, whilst Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice, penetrating through ages and... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...unattained by the latter. " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness, long drawn out, \ With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." The fact of there being no written life of Milton, is a matter of profound regret to the literary world.... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1844 - 790 pages
...effects of Music subtly sweet, or solemnly elevating, as Milton, when in L Allegro he exclaims, — " Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse....a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes run. Untwisting all the charms which... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...sweetness and prolonged grace of those enchanting compositions. To us, a Greek choral song is composed of "soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse ; Such...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...child, Warble his native wood-note« wild. And ever against eating cares, 1 ,:i l> me in soft Lydiau b E z aG M 2%u $ l ' s aӍ a a x imS bf 3 'm It祶Rve...v. 8Z x +_ Iå XhO 6 ( !N 3 F _ rS o G z k 3]Z z k i Z With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...sweeteet Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...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... | |
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