 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 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all...  Sporting Magazine - Page 1271805Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 pages
...the meeting foul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked fwcetnefs long drawn out 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice thro' mazes running ; Untwifting all the chains that tye The hidden foul of harmony : That co n A ir N r xi AH r. 191 •... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...linked sweetness long drawn out ; . With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ;• Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. . Let us parallel this with the softness, the winding surface, the unbroken continuance, the easy gradation... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...Such as the meeting, foul may piesce, In notes with many a winding bout , , Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out, . ':••«• With wanton heed, and giddy cunning; The melting voice thro' mazes running j •'••. . : Untwifting all the chains that tie . .. ' The hidden foul of harmony : That Orpheus'... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Music is the living voice of the beautiful, and tends to soothe and melt, to cheer and animate. Martin... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...verfe, Such as the meeting foul may pierce In notes,. with many a winding bo t Of linked fweemefs long drawn out With wanton heed, and giddy cunning,, The melting voice thro' mazes running ; Untwifling all the. chains that tye ' The hidden foul of harmony :. That Orpheus felf may heave his... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...bout, Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus 'self may heave his head Frond' golden slumbers on a bed Of lieajj'd Elysian flowers,... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 pages
...Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That ORPHEUS' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 pages
...Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That ORPHEUS' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony: That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed, and_giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. But, were my judgment to decide, I should award the palm, though with some hesitation, to II Penseroso.... | |
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