 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...The description is as follows : ( • — And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...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... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout...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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...England did adorn, Homer in loftiness of thought surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...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, and hear... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...throngs of knights and barons bolu In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, wliosc bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of...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 Of... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If JONSOU'S learned sock be on, Or sweetest SHAKSPEARE, Fancy's...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 Such... | |
 | 1806 - 448 pages
...music, which will bear ample testimony to his complete knowledge of this science and its effects. " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." IS Allegro, zi. 135, et sej. Milton here shews his acquaintance with the distinguishing characteristic... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...descriptive Muse. No passage in II Penseroso is, perhaps, equally happy with the following in L'Allegro : And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden eoul of harmony. Bul, were my judgment to decide, I should award ihe palm, though with some hesitation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...The description is as follows : ........ And ever against eating caret. Lap me in soft Lydian airs ; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's...running, .Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden souls of Harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice throngh mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie...head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-rcgain'd... | |
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Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. 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... 
