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" Lull'd the weak bosom, and induced ease, Aerial music in the warbling wind, At distance rising oft by small degrees, Nearer and nearer came, till o'er the trees It hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas! "
The Kilmarnock mirror, and literary gleaner - Page 290
1819
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Instruments and the Imagination

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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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...
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gray's english poems

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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