 | Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 էջ
...have a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection ; a music such as Milton describes — " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy... | |
 | 1847 - 490 էջ
...a music not to be found elsewhere in the same perfection; a music such as Milton describes — " Jn notes, with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Doubtless, true religion will draw you away from this class of pleasures. But it will neither destroy... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 էջ
...different object, as a resource against the daily trials and petty annoyances of life, exclaims : — " Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." There is an exquisite symbolism in this last passage. The idea is that the " hidden soul " of a good... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910 - 260 էջ
...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'... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - 1988 - 420 էջ
...another. The description is as follows: And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 էջ
...strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo;... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 էջ
...visionary poetry with strong (and not very subtle) warnings to regard L'Allegro's desires skeptically: Lap me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse....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,... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 էջ
...Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout 140 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; 145 That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - 2002 - 388 էջ
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 էջ
...sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native Wood-notes wild. And ever against eating Cares, 135 Lap me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse,...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the... | |
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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 link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... 
