 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 sider
...sweetest Shakespear, 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...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 sider
...different object, as a resource against the daily trials and petty annoyances of life, exclaims : — " Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." There is an exquisite symbolism in this last passage. The idea is that the " hidden soul " of a good... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910 - 260 sider
...Explain carefully, paying special attention to the meaning and suggestion of italicised words : (a) Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning. (6) Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops'... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - 1988 - 420 sider
...another. 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo;... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - 2002 - 388 sider
...substituting poetry for heterosexual love. His most sensual encounter in L' Allegro is with poetic song: And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...cunning, The melting voice through mazes running. (11. 135-142) Here Milton describes a genuine communion, the "meeting" that he hitherto avoided. These... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 sider
...sweetest Shakespeare, 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,...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the... | |
 | Joan Ross Acocella - 2004 - 324 sider
...one point L'Allegro sings: And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs: Soothe me with immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony, The subject here is song — specifically, how singing, while it may lead us through a thousand complications,... | |
 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 sider
...drawing the reader through many lines, till punctuation gives relief, as Milton described in L' Allegro: with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. (139-44) Milton seems to have considered the verse paragraph as his unit of construction. The syntactical... | |
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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 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice... 
