 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 - Page 26by John Milton - 1782 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 616 pages
...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 - Italy - 1818 - 406 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 ;... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...0 sad virgin, that thy power Might raise M usa?us from his bower \ Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing lo0H/+ OfCamball, and of Algarsife, And irbohad Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ; And... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...O sad Virgin ! that thy power Might raise Musseus 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 Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ;... | |
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