| Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - Mathematics - 1999 - 358 pages
...such Soul-dissolving Airs, As did, alas! with soft Perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanging Snares, The listening Heart forgot all Duties and...all Cares. A certain Music, never known before, Here sooth'd the pensive melancholy Mind; Full easily obtain'd. Behoves no more, But sidelong, to the gently-waving... | |
| John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...It hung, and breath'd such Soul-dissolving Airs, As did, alas! with soft Perdition please: Entangled deep in its enchanting Snares, The listening Heart forgot all Duties and all Cares. (I, lines 345-51) (This is Spenser as filtered through the dangerous poetry of Milton's Masque.) If... | |
| 320 pages
...certain music, never known before, Here lulled the pensive, melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained. Behoves no more, But sidelong, to the gently waving wind, To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined ; From which with airy flying fingers light, Beyond each mortal touch... | |
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