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" Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And hell itself will... "
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Page 271
1816
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. XIV. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold ; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 83

1848 - 636 pages
...verse in the ' Christmas Hymn ' seems a prophecy Handel was sent to fulfil — ' For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous bin will melt from earthly mould : And hell...
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Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost

Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...result, the difficulties which attend it could have no more dire consequences. For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speikl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...ears, (lines 115-6) the poet implores in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity': For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell...
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Carnal Rhetoric: Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire

Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 pages
...sustained creative repudiation of the outward manifestations of worldly corruption: For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And lep'rous sin will melt from earthly mould, And hell...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...does so often enough to excite our admiration. We do not expect the impossible: For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould, And hell...
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The Miltonic Moment

J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 pages
...of Virgil's priscae vestigia fi-audis (31)), but the return of the golden age: For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, Yea Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a Rain-bow; and like glories wearing Mercy...
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Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies

Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 pages
...pastoral world transformed by "that Light unsufferable" of the Incarnation: "For if such holy song/ Enwrap our fancy long, /Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold." The rich pattern of connections made by this choice of first poem coincides with Palgrave's summarizing...
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Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England

Reid Barbour - 2001 - 282 pages
...iconoclasts alike ponder with Milton the ideal circumstances required so that "if such holy Song / Enwrap our fancy long, / Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold."74 It is helpful to remember that the young Milton praises Andrewes, devises masques, and celebrates...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th'Angelic symphony. XIV For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, 135 102. the hollow round: the orb or sphere of the nothing." moon. Cf. 1. 75 above, 1. 130 below,...
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