 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...that tie That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 3 XIV.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 pages
...harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-rcgain'd Eurydice." 14. Our sense of hearing is not exposed to many deceptions, unless when our... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thes I mean to live. lL PENSEROSO.... | |
 | Alan R. Burger, Hyman R. Cohen, David H. DeGrood - Philosophy - 1980 - 308 pages
...Upon the sightless couriers of the air ..." and where I now read with tears, having heard much music, Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. You had to know what was in the lines: that was Spier's message. And when you... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flowres, and hear Such streins as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. [145-50] All this presents a sharp contrast with the poem of "the fixed mind" whose presiding goddess,... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...parallel evocation of Orpheus in the closing lines of VAllegro calls up music and lyric poetry to make one hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. We are reminded that the formulation in // Penseroso suppresses the fact that... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs,...thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. (lines 143-51) 'These delights' have by the poem's end become quite clearly defined as the delights... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, and heat Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. (11. 136-50) the charges of the Muse-haters that it is precisely the "linked sweetness" of poetry that... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...harmony; 145 That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free 150 His half-regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...ends: That Orpheus self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Henry King,... | |
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With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus... 
