...compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, 70 And the low world in measured motion draw After the...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear. And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise Whose lustre...

...nine infolded Spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears And turn the adamantine spiudle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound....tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurgfid ear." The uniformity of conception in these passages is really remarkable. I may include...

...enfolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round I On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet...tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurgèd ear. And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise...

...compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, jc And the low world in measured motion draw After the...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear. And yet such music worthiest were to blaze The peerless height of her immortal praise Whose lustre...

...elsewhere a purely moral view—that sin has deadened the human senses, once so keen. Cf. Arcades, 72, 73: "After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear." 180. Elements; see n. 274, 275, note. Among many illustrations in Shakespeare of this belief cf. Antony...

...elsewhere a purely moral view — that sin has deadened the senses, once so keen. Cf. Arc. 72, 73, "the heavenly tune which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear;" and the Nat. Ode, 125, 126, "ye crystal Spheres, Once bless our human ears" (ie for this once). Here,...

...locked up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Sirens' harmony,2 That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears,...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear. 1 For the amorous character of the nightingale's song, cf. PL 4. 603; 771; 7. 436; 8. 518; C. 234....

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...sky." 126. Once, ie for once, the harmony of the spheres being imperceptible by men. Cf. Arc. 72, 73, "the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurgcd ear." So the Ala-chant of Venice, v. 60 — 65. In his treatise De Spherarum Concenlu Milton...

...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 height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre...