 The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights...  Table-talk; or, Original essays - Page 29by William Hazlitt - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well-touched, and artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air?...judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. An evening fire-side by twilight is thus well described in the Reflector : — ' How observed with... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...which he would have been both able and willing to borrow if they had suited his immediate purpose. " He who of these delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise." " Qui tanta novit gaudia carpere, Prudensque parca mente frui sapi', Scit ille, ni fallor, Deorum Muneribus... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...day together in colloquial enjoyment, and elegant festivity, when he concludes. " He, who of those delights can judge, and spare " To interpose them oft, is not unwise." solid peece of frame- work, as any January could freeze together*. Nor much better will be the consequence... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. * The virtuous son was author... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 378 pages
...us, light and choice, Of Attick taste, with wine, whence we may rise To bear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air...judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. MILTON. Literary Pocket Book. THE BURIED ALIVE. i y ******** * I HAD been for some time ill of a low... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...hear the lute well-touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal .notes and Tuscan air ? He ivho of thosc delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft,...deceased Wife, the allusion to Alcestis is beautiful, and shows how the poet's mind raised and refined his thoughts by exquisite classical conceptions, and how... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...hear the lute well-touch'd, 01 artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise." In the last, On nis deceased Wife, the allusion to Alcostis is beautiful, and shews how the poet's mind raised and... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. XXI. TO CYRIAC SKINNER. CYRIAC ! whose grandsire, on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. MILTON. ®o Cprfac Sfetnnet.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. MILTON. STo ffipriac Sfelnner.... | |
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