 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 psl.
...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 psl.
...Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, l 3 ^ Married to immortal Verse, Such as the meeting soul...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, x With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, * The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 psl.
...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... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 psl.
...child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. ' x And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through'mazes running, Untwisting all the chains.that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus'... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 psl.
...surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...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... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 psl.
...Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...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... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 psl.
...Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...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,... | |
 | 1806 - 448 psl.
...complete knowledge of this science and its effects. " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...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... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 psl.
...equally happy with the following in L'Allegro : And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 psl.
...The description is as follows : ........ And ever against eating caret. 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... | |
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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... 
