...and down as if it had itself wings. Milton has himself given us the theory of his versification — " Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with...winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out." Dr. Johnson and Pope would have converted his vaulting Pegasus into a rocking-horse. Read any other...

...Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running s Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : Thjg^rpheus' self may heave his head...

...Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wocd notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian...the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a vending bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and gidjy cunning. The melting voice...

...me in soft Lydian sirs, Married to immortal verse, Such as tlie meeting soul may pierce, In i-otcs with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long...and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes runnfng ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus' sell' may have...

...child, * Warble his native ivoud notes- wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lvdian airs-, Married to immortal verse. Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a iviudir.g bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting...

...sccke For powerful Circe, and let in aj Inner Temple irt is sufficiently marked. His songs are to be Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout, Of finked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes...

...and married calm of states — ." Milton had perhaps these lines in his thoughts when he wrote : " And ever against eating cares " Lap me in soft Lydian...winding bout " Of linked sweetness long drawn out." MALONE. 6 — like a MAKELESS wife;] As a widow bewails her lost husband. Make and mate were formerly...

...appears to me, can claim, as perfectly descriptive of her powers, those noble lines of Milton : — " In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Who, that has heard the sweet strife between the voice and the instrument, when. she has been accompanied...

...Such as the meeting soul may pierce, • _ In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness lung drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus' self may heave hi> head From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd FJysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have...

...Jonsou's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shafcspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native woodnotes wild. And 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 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With...