 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pagina’s
...lock'd up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in musick lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pagina’s
...up mortal sense, then listen I , To the celestial sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in musick lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pagina’s
...lock'd up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Syrens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity, And keep unsteady Nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pagina’s
...waves, and rises near Syracuse, in Sicily, thuja. " That sit upon the nine infolded spheres,1 - ' 1 And sing to those that hold the vital shears* And...•', ",• ! On which the fate of Gods and men is worfiad; , Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, : *L To lull the daughters of Necessity, , ,, ':... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pagina’s
...harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, 65 And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in musick lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pagina’s
...locked up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pagina’s
...lock'd up mortal sense, then listen 1 To the celestial Syrens'1 harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. 1 ' Syrens : ' this is an apt allusion to Plato's notion of Fate or Necessity holding a spindle of... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 pagina’s
...of the word in Comus, 526. 63—73. " the celestial Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle" &c. in a particular poetical sub-notion of that physical system—the notion involved in the phrase... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pagina’s
...descrip- withal musical. tion of the sylvan occupations, prior to the That sit upon the nine unfolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...round On which the fate of gods and men is wound." After a few lines more of this thoroughly Miltonic eulogy on the powers of music, the Genius, protesting... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 pagina’s
...mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Sirens harmony, That sit upon the nine enfolded Sphears, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And...round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens... | |
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Sirens' 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. 
