...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's...running, .Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden souls of Harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian...

...descriptive Muse. No passage in II Penseroso is perhaps equally happy with the following in L'Allegro: And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. But if my judgment were to decide, I should award the palm, though with some hesitation, to II Penseroso....

...sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 13,5 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, 140 of this line as regarding the moon; and the five next lines tend to warrant the general contents...

...and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights a« yonthful poets dream On tuiumer oes -by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon,...through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tic The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed...

...parti ; and between ui, we boasted, that we made up the entire phenomenon."— LEIOH HOST'S BYBO.N. In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony," so illustrated as in the last line of Gay'i " Black-eyed Susan," — " Adieu ! she cried, and waved...

...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Sliakspeare, the heart ; For Wit's false tic The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed...

...Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft...giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running s Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : Thjg^rpheus' self may heave his head...

...Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wocd notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft...the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a vending bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and gidjy cunning. The melting voice...

...and married calm of states — ." Milton had perhaps these lines in his thoughts when he wrote : " And ever against eating cares " Lap me in soft Lydian...winding bout " Of linked sweetness long drawn out." MALONE. 6 — like a MAKELESS wife;] As a widow bewails her lost husband. Make and mate were formerly...

...appears to me, can claim, as perfectly descriptive of her powers, those noble lines of Milton : — " In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." Who, that has heard the sweet strife between the voice and the instrument, when. she has been accompanied...