 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 pages
...close of the first book of his Paradise Lost, where he represents the legions of Satan as moving " in perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders," " soft pipes that charmed their painful steps," &c., &c. useful thoughts ; so that, when the music... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1843 - 560 pages
...thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable ; anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage Deliberate... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable ; anon they move enerous lion stands in soflen'd gaze, Here bleeds, a hapless undis ; such as rais'd To highth of noblest temper heroes,old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage Deliberate... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1843 - 564 pages
...thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable ; anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage Deliberate... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders : such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and, instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...fallen angels in hell — the unfurling of the standard of Satan — and the march of his troops ' In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ' — all this human pomp and circumstance of war is magic and overwhelming illusion. The imagination... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields, in thick array Of depth immeasurable: anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To highth of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle; and instead of rage Deliberate... | |
 | Peter Placet (pseud.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...With that close ranks take open order : Nor needs there flute or soft recorder ;* * Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders. Par. Lott, I. 549. At Feurnann's beck a Tractsman tall Stepp'd forth with engine musical ; Whereon... | |
 | George Finlay - 1844 - 592 pages
...rapidity, a perception of the delicacy of the ancient music, and the Roman infantry no longer moved In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood, Of flutes and soft recorders. It happened, during the war with the Goths in Italy, that Belisarius was placed in difficulty, from... | |
 | William Henry G. Kingston - 514 pages
...helms « Appear'd ; and serried shields in thick array « Of depth immeasureable : anon they move « In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood « Of flutes and- soft recorders. » MILTON. Rubbing his eyes with hands, of inky hue, The sage Fadladecn gaping wid*, exclaims : «... | |
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Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders... 
