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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 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... "
Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 300
by John Timbs - 1829
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...with many a winding bout . .. Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Some men are gifted with an exceedingly correct ear. In the case of Milton, the loss of sight improved...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...many a winding bout ^ Of linked sweetuess long dra^vn out, 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head 145 From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, i20 needs] Troilue and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul...of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head HB From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed, arid giddy cunning, The melting voice tbrough ought, that having once entered upon these reasonings, we might be carried Let us parallel this with the softness, the winding surface, the unhroken continuance, the easy gradation...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains, that tye The hidden soul of harmony ; '. That Orpheus' self...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-regain'd...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...harmony ; That Orphens' self may heave his head From golden slumher on a hed 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-regain'd Eurydiee. These delights, if thou eanst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEHOSO. HESCE,...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning. The melting voice through mazes running. Untwisting...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." C9) He here undoubtedly alludes to Plato, who, in various not be inexpedient after meat, to assist...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...notes, with many a winding boat Of linked sweetness, long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; when we see a master of English eloquence thus gifted, choosing a dead language, the dialect of the...
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American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans

Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness, long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" when we see a master of English eloquence, thus gifted, choosing V dead language, the dialect of...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head ?rom golden slumber on a bed 3f heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear }f Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. "Crnowreo/ neigNm,ring eye.."— The pole...
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