...wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; 8uch hty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling...the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every hie head From golden slumber on a bed Of hcap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have...

...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....self may heave his head, From golden slumber on a bed L ALLEGRO. Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to...

...the different kinds of music, and their respective influences on the merry and the meditative man. " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...That Orpheus' self may heave his head, From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,...

...with a sublimity unattempted by the former, and ravishes with a sweetness unattained by the latter. " In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." The fact of there being no written life of Milton, is a matter of profound regret to the literary world....

...may even apply to his performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music; " — Notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, whilst Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice, penetrating through ages and...

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...effects of Music subtly sweet, or solemnly elevating, as Milton, when in L Allegro he exclaims, — " Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse....and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes run. Untwisting all the charms which tie The hidden soul of harmony." Or when in H Penteroso, in another...

...sweetness and prolonged grace of those enchanting compositions. To us, a Greek choral song is composed of "soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse ; Such...long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, in the form ordinarily given to...

...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, 7 Or sweeteet Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,...

...Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in sofi Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap' d Elysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,...