 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
 | 1819 - 654 pages
...the fallen angels in hull— the unfurling of the standard of Satan — and the march of his troops " In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood " Of flutes and soft recorders " — all this human pomp and circumstance of war — is magic and overwhelming illusion. The imagination... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable ; anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders; such as rais'd To height of nohleat temper heroes old Arming to battle; and, instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...recorder is a wind-instrument of a soft and melancholy sound. Milton makes the infernal spirits march on In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders ; vaicb, says he, had the effect - to mitigate and swage With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and... | |
 | William Mason - English literature - 1811 - 438 pages
...to mind the noble passage in Milton, who, after he has arrayed his fallen Seraphs, makes them move " In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood " Of flutes, and soft recorders." * The Siciliana movement is also of a very rhythmical kind; yet, when executed with taste and tenderness,... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 436 pages
...to mind the noble passage in Milton, who, after he has arrayed his fallen Seraphs, makes them move " In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood " Of flutes, and soft recorders." * The Siciliana movement is also of a very rhythmical kind; yet, when executed with taste and tenderness,... | |
 | William Mitford - Greece - 1814 - 444 pages
...had considerably overstretched the Lacedaemonian left; and, Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move, In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised . To highth of noblest temper heroes old, ' ' Arming to battel, and, instead of rage,... | |
 | John Gillies - Greece - 1814 - 438 pages
...Milton, who was a diligent reader of Tliucydirles, are the best commentary on this battle. Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders, such asrais,d To height of noblest temper heroes old, Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
 | England - 1844 - 814 pages
...solid force, and the sweet harmony, almost realized the noblo poetic conception — " Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders, snch as raised To heights of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 344 pages
...fallen angels in hell — the unfurling of the standard of Satan — and the march of his troops " In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood " Of flutes and soft recorders" — all this human pomp and circumstance of war — is magic and overwhelming illusion. The imagination... | |
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Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders... 
