 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...stream. wo Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout 2 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, no With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting voice through... | |
 | English periodicals - 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... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 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,...long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning. (6) Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops'... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...Poets dream On Summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned Sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child,...me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse. (lines 119-37) The poem ends with a figure recurrent in the Miltonic pantheon, that type of the poet,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...On summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock59 be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble...ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,60 Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 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 - Literary Criticism - 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...cunning, The melting voice through mazes running. (11. 135-142) Here Milton describes a genuine communion, the "meeting" that he hitherto avoided. These... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Collections - 2002 - 296 pages
...Siren': CN\u. 3404). i. 1804. [I]n : 1804. in MS. 2. 'meeting soul' is from Milton's 'L' Allegro': 'And ever against eating cares, | Lap me in soft Lydian...| Such as the meeting soul may pierce | In notes' (ll. 135-9); and in Collins's 'Ode to Simplicity' (l. 48). WW also uses it, in 1820 (WPWu\. 164). For... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Poets dream On Summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If {onion's learned Sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child,...native Wood-notes wild. And ever against eating Cares, 135 Lap me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes,... | |
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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 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice... 
