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...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...

...ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout...the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Music is the living voice of the beautiful, and tends to soothe and melt, to cheer and animate. Martin...

...Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. ' x And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through'mazes running, Untwisting all the chains.that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus'...

...England did adorn, Homer in loftiness of thought surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...of harmony ; That Orpheus 'self may heave his head Frond' golden slumbers on a bed Of lieajj'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such. strains as would have won...

...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....That ORPHEUS' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Of PLUTO, to have quite set free His half-regain'd...

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

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...music, which will bear ample testimony to his complete knowledge of this science and its effects. " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." IS Allegro, zi. 135, et sej. Milton here shews his acquaintance with the distinguishing characteristic...

...descriptive Muse. No passage in II Penseroso is, perhaps, equally happy with the following in L'Allegro : And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden eoul of harmony. Bul, were my judgment to decide, I should award ihe palm, though with some hesitation,...