| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...airs married to verse. The general drift, however, of the concluding lines of the poem from the 136th With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tye The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...Lap me in soft Lydian airs; In notes Kith many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn oirt; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Let us parallel this with the softness,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tic The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 782 pages
...requires the common culture of tender exotics. * HEED, nf [from the verb.] i. Care; attention. — With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running. Mil. — Take heed that, in their tender years, ideas, that have no natural cohefion, come not to be... | |
| England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...entire phenomenon."— LEIOH HOST'S BYBO.N. In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony," so illustrated as in the last line... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...immortal verse, Such as the meeting sonl 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 mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony: That Orpheus1 self may have the head... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 mazes running. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head... | |
| 1824 - 494 pages
...sure cause, of the second being asked for ; then the singer may give full scope to his genius, then " With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running he may extasiate his audience, and then if he has any power, that power will assuredly be deeply felt.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 mazes running s Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : Thjg^rpheus' self may heave his head... | |
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