 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, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 1001824Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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 the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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 the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head,... | |
 | 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 through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." The fact of there being no written... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...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 the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." There is an exquisite symbolism in... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...condemned the "soft Lydian Aires," and Milton subtly recalls the condemnation, while seeming to ignore it: With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running . . . [141-42] But the words "wanton," "giddy," and "melting" recall the implications of the Republic:... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - 1988 - 420 pages
...cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs; 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 the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Let us parallel this with the softness,... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Baldine Saint Girons - 1998 - 260 pages
...analogie entre l'ouïe et tous les autres sens dans le registre du plaisir. [suite de la note 1, p. 171] With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting ail the chains that tye The hidden soul ofharmony. 1. La mélancolie ne se trouve donc... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. | .@ 0 Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P;... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Oflinckedsweetnes long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwining all the chains that ty The bidden soul ofbarmony. That Orpheus self may beave bis bead From... | |
 | Paul Everett - 1996 - 124 pages
...redolent of Milton's lines 139^4: 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 the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Here (as in // penseroso) Milton is... | |
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