 | John Milton - 1884 - 304 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven. Milton's proficiency in music would naturally lead him. to combine ' the touch of instruments (as accompanying)... | |
 | Bishop Samuel Fallows - 1884 - 524 pages
...watch, or nightlv rounding walk With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven. MILTON. Oh, angel, lend me the shade of thy wing; I sec the portals of light unrolled, With songs of... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 334 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven." Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed On to their blissful bower ; it was a place 6 9° Chosen... | |
 | 1889 - 610 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.' It must be admitted that a critic who commended such poetry as the above to the readers and admirers... | |
 | 1890 - 506 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night and lift our thoughts to heaven. Wonderful .beautiful Eden! whence "From a sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl... | |
 | Henry Frederic Reddall - 1891 - 588 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven." Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed On to their blissful bower; it was a place Chosen by the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.' Thomson has the following footnote : — ' A young lady well known to the author, who died at the age... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.' Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed On to their blissful bower; it was a place Chosen by the... | |
 | John Milton - 1894 - 360 pages
...they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number, joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven." Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed On to their blissful bower. It was a place 690 Cliosen... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 490 pages
...keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.' N°- 13. Thursday, March 15, 1711 [ADDISON. Die mihi, si fueras tu leo, rjualis eris? — MART., Sat.... | |
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... often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly... 
