 | American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 296 pages
...gradations of ascent and descent at pleasure. Milton describes these excellencies when he eulogises " The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...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 pages
...notes, with many a winding bout Of 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 - 292 pages
...gradations of ascent and descent at pleasure. Milton describes these excellencies when he eulogises " The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting...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... | |
 | 1839 - 508 pages
...Lydian airs; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton hand and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Beauty in motion consists of " a roundness of action," and beauty in feeling is experienced in touching... | |
 | Terence McMahon Hughes - 1839 - 76 pages
...own peculiar style of excellence, " in many a winding bout," " With wanton heed and giddy cunning, My melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ! " I sang the following to the air of " The Light of other Days." I. The light of WHIGGERY is faded,... | |
 | John Freeman Milward Dovaston - 1839 - 76 pages
...» Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning ; The melting voice thro' mazes running. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." As I have so much spoken of them, and even praised them so much, it will perhaps be expected, before... | |
 | 1840 - 528 pages
...aid of music fully to develope the feelings of the writer ; that it is only while we listen to " airs Such as the melting soul may pierce. In notes with...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" it is only, I say, while listening to such airs as these, that we can follow the Lyric poet in his... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 pages
...thought and imagery, knew better than most other men, how to breathe forth his thoughts and images, " In notes, with many a winding bout, Of linked sweetness,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" when we see a master of English eloquence, thus gifted, choosing a dead language, — the dialect... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pages
...most other men, how to breathe forth his thoughts and images, " In notes, with many a winding bont, Of linked sweetness, long drawn out, With wanton heed...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ;" when we see a master of English eloquence, thus gifted, choosing a dead language, — the dialect... | |
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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... 
