...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 75 Whose lustre...

...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 car." And in Coleridge's Remorse, III. i., are lines not unworthy of a place beside these, wherein...

...sky." 126. Once, ie for once, the harmony of the spheres being imperceptible by men. Cf. Are. 72, 73, "the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear." So the Merchant of Venice, v. 60 — 65. In his treatise De Spherarum Concentu Milton says, solus inter...

...elsewhere a purely moral view — that sin has deadened the human 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,...

...sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fates of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth...human mould with gross unpurged ear." — Milton's Arcades, 61-73. 330-42. Tennyson instanced this passage as one of his best achievements in blank verse....

...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. The peerless height of her immortal praise And yet such music worthiest were to blaze If my inferior...

...the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, 70 1 Adorn. 2 Harmful. 8 Opposing. 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 75 Whose...

...the sirens." 126. human ears. The heavenly harmony is inaudible to men's impure ears: comp. Arc. 72, "the heavenly tune which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear"; also Com. 458, 997. 127. touch our senses. Comp. II Peris. 13, "too bright To hit the sense of human...

...Flowers over all the field, of every hue That ever Iris wore, luxuriant grew. COWPER'S TRANSLATION SUCH sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the...none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear. ARCADES HOW charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical...

...passage shows that he also felt the charm of this beautiful dream, and Milton in the Arcades speaks of " the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." The "immortal souls "of 1. 63 seem therefore to be the stars, and it is their music which we cannot...