 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 link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through...  Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and ... - Page 199by Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 643 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lyilian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting 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... | |
 | 1924 - 978 pages
...ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. It soothes his sorrows : Lap me in soft Lydian airs . . . Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out . . . The melting voice through mazes running. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...different object, as a resource against the daily trials and petty annoyances of life, exclaims : — " Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning. The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the... | |
 | Stanley Fish - 1980 - 412 pages
...once is a consequence even threatened, when the Lydian airs are said to "pierce" the meeting soul — "Lap me in soft Lydian Airs / Married to immortal verse, / Such as the meeting soul may pierce" (136—138); but the first two words of the following line, "In notes," blunt the potential thrust... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910 - 260 pages
...Explain carefully, paying special attention to the meaning and suggestion of italicised words : (a) 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. (6) Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 With wanton heed and giddy cunning. The melting voice through mazes running. Untwisting all the chains... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...childe, Warble his native Wood^notes wilde, And ever againsl eating Cares, Lap me in soft Lydian Aires, Married to immortal verse Such 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... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...visionary poetry with strong (and not very subtle) warnings to regard L'Allegro's desires skeptically: 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...Warble his native wood-notes wild;0 l 35 And ever against eating cares.0 Iap me in soft Lydian airs.0 Married to immortal verse. Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout l40 Of linked sweemess long drawn out. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. The mehing voice through... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - 2002 - 388 pages
...substituting poetry for heterosexual love. His most sensual encounter in L' Allegro is with poetic song: And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running. (11. 135-142) Here Milton... | |
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