 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...ferocity. — Opera, t. vi. 153. (*8) In his L" Allegro he thus describes the delights of music : " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout, linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...saffron robe, with taper clear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, With Mask and antique Pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves...anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespear, Fancy's childe, Warble his native wood-notes wilde. And ever against eating cares, Lap... | |
 | 642 pages
...they make llteir game. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " Then to ihc well-trod stage anon." " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy canning, The melting voice through... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. iso Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...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 ; Such as... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...enticed as from our more immediate purpose ; and we must, still yielding to the witcheries of Milton, " To the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock...Fancy's child, Warble his native woodnotes wild." We admire, en passant, the fine discrimination with which the poet allots to each great dramatist his... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 pages
...way they make (heir game, PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " Then to ihe well-trod stage anon." " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy canning, The melting voice through... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...In saffron robe with taper clear, And pomp and feast and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves...anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. YACINTH. Hyacinthus. Class 6, H ANDIUA.... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...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 ; Such as... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves...anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me... | |
| |
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... 
