 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, * meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...world speak, articulating the music nature and people make spontaneously. He can afford to be passive: And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse . . . He's not a solitary ' maker ' but himself part of the audience. The poet's dream merges into... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...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, ' 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... | |
 | Stanley Fish - Education - 1980 - 412 pages
...once is a consequence even threatened, when the Lydian airs are said to "pierce" the meeting soul — "Lap me in soft Lydian Airs / Married to immortal verse, / Such as the meeting soul may pierce" (136—138); but the first two words of the following line, "In notes," blunt... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - Education - 1910 - 260 pages
...Explain carefully, paying special attention to the meaning and suggestion of italicised words : (a) 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. With... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...On Summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned Sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his...me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse. (lines 119-37) The poem ends with a figure recurrent in the Miltonic pantheon, that type of the poet,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock59 be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his...ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,60 Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...visionary poetry with strong (and not very subtle) warnings to regard L'Allegro's desires skeptically: 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... | |
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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... 
