 | American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 292 lehte
...at pleasure. Milton describes these excellencies when he eulogises " The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Similar remarks may be made as to the second species of compass, viz. that relating to loudness and... | |
 | 642 lehte
...linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed and giddy canning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." MILTON'S ALLEGRO. The ITALIAN OPERA has still continued the great central attraction of our pleasure-seekers... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 296 lehte
...at pleasure. Milton describes these excellencies when he eulogises " The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."* Similar remarks may be made as to the second species of compass, viz. that relating to loudness and... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 lehte
...Rain] From the Messaggiero of Tasso. ' Piovano quaggiu della lor virtu.' Black's Life of Tasso, ii. 47& Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul...of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head us From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won... | |
 | 1866 - 856 lehte
...strains, which intricately played upon " nil the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony" — " Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free The half-regained Enrydice." Dr Burney says distinctly, that in " counterpoint," and those other more... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 lehte
...created, so that at the close even Orpheus becomes, not a singer, but a listener! For the speaker wishes That Orpheus self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flowres, and hear Such streins as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - 1988 - 420 lehte
...linked sweetness long drawn out; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting 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... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 lehte
...parallel evocation of Orpheus in the closing lines of VAllegro calls up music and lyric poetry to make one hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. We are reminded that the formulation in // Penseroso suppresses the fact that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...linked sweetness long drawn out. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. The melting voice through mazes gho (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo;... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 lehte
...119-37) The poem ends with a figure recurrent in the Miltonic pantheon, that type of the poet, Orpheus: Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
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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 linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... 
