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 heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... Specimens of the British Poets ... - Page 189by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
| Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...young shepherd's careless harp : the sprightly effusions Of linked sweetness long drawn out, \V it li wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...all the chains that tie, The hidden soul of harmony. To repeat the histories current among the ancients, in which the power of music was effectual to raise... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...Lap me in soft Lydian airs; In notes Kith many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn oirt; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice...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... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 heed, and giddy...through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tic The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 782 pages
...requires the common culture of tender exotics. * HEED, nf [from the verb.] i. Care; attention. — With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running. Mil. — Take heed that, in their tender years, ideas, that have no natural cohefion, come not to be... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 heed, and giddy...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-regain'd... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...to immortal verse, Such as the meeting sonl may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. With wanton heed and giddy...the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony: That Orpheus1 self may have the head From golden slamber, on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such... | |
| England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...made up the entire phenomenon."— LEIOH HOST'S BYBO.N. In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony," so illustrated as in the last line of Gay'i " Black-eyed Susan," — " Adieu ! she cried, and waved... | |
| 1824 - 494 pages
...sure cause, of the second being asked for ; then the singer may give full scope to his genius, then " With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running he may extasiate his audience, and then if he has any power, that power will assuredly be deeply felt.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness, long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy...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-regain'd... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...immortal verse. Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a iviudir.g bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy...hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus' self may heave 4iis head From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap "d Eljsian flowers, and hear Such strains as would... | |
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