 Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string,...  Allegro und Penseroso - Seite 26von John Milton - 1782 - 31 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 Seiten
...senses; and so amuses the fancy whilst it informs the understanding. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 105 Such notes, as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Every allegory has therefore two senses, the literal and the mystical; the literal sense is like a... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 Seiten
...senses; and so amuses the fancy whilst it informs the understanding. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 105 Such notes, as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Every allegory has therefore two senses, the literal and the mystical; the literal sense is like a... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 Seiten
...sad Virgin, that thy power flight raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing JOS Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's chee k, And made Hell grant what love did seek! Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...But, O sad Virgin, that thy pow'r Might raise Musicus from his Iww'r, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's check, Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 Seiten
...free His half-reiain'd Eurydice." L'AUegrn. If to melancholy,— " Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek." ¡I Pnitroso. WAHli. [S] Milton, in his Paradiic Loti, В. IV. has very successfully ittroduced th«... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears from Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That... | |
 | 1818 - 616 Seiten
...THOMAS CAMPBELL. " Thy power Might raise Musa>us from his bower, Or bid the soul oí Orpheus sinjt Such notes as warbled to the string. Drew iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek." MILTON. AMID the toils and turmoils of the world, and the disagreeable vicissitudes of this passing... | |
 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 Seiten
...Anacreon so disgraced, and listened with impatience to the perversion of those harmonious sounds, which warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. But he was the gayest inhabitant of a place, where every countenance was shaded by the gloom of captivity,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musxus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears...him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsifc, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ;... | |
 | 1819 - 580 Seiten
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