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" ... harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity,... "
Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will - Page 118
by William Shakespeare - 1895 - 153 pages
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 2

Thomas Warton - 1762 - 286 pages
...Birch't edit. vel, 2. pag. 591. And keep unfteady nature to her law. And the low world in meafur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mold, with grofs unpurged ear. In a Prolufan on the fame fubjeft, we^read much the fame platonic fentiments....
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...the daughters of Neceffity, And keep unfteddy Nature to her law, 7ยป And the low world in meafur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mold with grofs unpurged ear ; And yet fuch mufic worthieft were to blaze The peerlefs highth of her...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...lull the daughters of Neceffity, And keep unfteddy Nature to her law, 70 And the low world in meafur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mold with grofs unpurged ear; And yet fuch mufic worthieft were to blaze The peerlefs highth of her...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 460 pages
...the daughters of necessity, " And keep unsteady nature in her law, " And the low world in measur'd motion draw " After the heavenly tune, which none can hear " Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." Maloue~ Thus, in Comus: " Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould " Breathe such...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, 70 And the low world in measnr'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear, Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerless highth of her immortal...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerless highth of her immortal...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear ; And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The pecrless height of her immortal...
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The Indicator, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...compulsion doth in music lie To lull the daughters of necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw, After the...heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear. " Milton's Genius of the Grove," says Warton, " being a spirit sent from Jove,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...the daughters of necessity, " And keep unsteady nature in her law, " And the low world in measur'd motion draw " After the heavenly tune which none can hear " Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." MALONE. Thus, in Comus : " Can any moital mixture of earth's mold " Breathe such...
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