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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... "
Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins - Page 128
edited by - 1806
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...linked sweetness Ions; drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden...head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...linked sweet ness 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. Let us parallel this with the softness, the winding surface, the unbroken continuance, the easy grad...
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 5

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...Oflinked 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 ; when we see a master of English eloquence thus gifted choosing a dead language, the dialect of the...
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Ladies' Magazine, Volume 1

1828 - 608 pages
...linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton head and giddy cunning, The voice through melting mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; the exquisite music of the verse prevents us from noticing the very obscure and indefinite sense of...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...linked sweetness long drawn out, "With wanton heed, and giddy cunnivg, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden...have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Milton. MLXXX. Sharpness of style does...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...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...won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free, His half regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to Jive. IIL —...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 3

1829 - 476 pages
...wanton heed and giddy cunniug', The melting voice tbrough mazes ruuuing, Untwisting all the chains.that tie The hidden soul of Harmony; That Orpheus' self...bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains that would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regained Eurydice. It affords...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...Untwisting all the chains that tie That Orpheus' self may heave his head The hidden soul of harmony; From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would hare won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...may heave hie head . From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strain!, as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. Mi/inn. My earthly by his heavenly overpowered, Which it had long stood under,...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 21

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...Fatima. but his mirth Is forced and strained : in his looks appears A wild distracted fierceness. ftstea. Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian Sowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set...
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