| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - Страниц: 368
...and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
| 1819 - Страниц: 654
...the fallen angels in hull— the unfurling of the standard of Satan — and the march of his troops " In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood " Of flutes and soft recorders " — all this human pomp and circumstance of war — is magic and overwhelming illusion. The imagination... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - Страниц: 484
...and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable ; anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders; such as rais'd To height of nohleat temper heroes old Arming to battle; and, instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 802
...recorder is a wind-instrument of a soft and melancholy sound. Milton makes the infernal spirits march on In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders ; vaicb, says he, had the effect - to mitigate and swage With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - Страниц: 436
...contexture than this, which 'would much more perfectly answer our assigned purpose. Prompt, and, as v it were, casual strains, which do not fix the attention...executed with taste and tenderness, comes under the denomination of Simple Music, and may most fitly be adapted to ecclesiastical purposes. In vulgar hands,... | |
| John Gillies - 1814 - Страниц: 438
...Milton, who was a diligent reader of Tliucydirles, are the best commentary on this battle. Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders, such asrais,d To height of noblest temper heroes old, Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
| William Mitford - 1814 - Страниц: 444
...line, had considerably overstretched the Lacedaemonian left; and, Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move, In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised . To highth of noblest temper heroes old, ' ' Arming to battel, and, instead of rage,... | |
| 1844 - Страниц: 814
...the solid force, and the sweet harmony, almost realized the noblo poetic conception — " Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders, snch as raised To heights of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - Страниц: 344
...fallen angels in hell — the unfurling of the standard of Satan — and the march of his troops " In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood " Of flutes and soft recorders" — all this human pomp and circumstance of war — is magic and overwhelming illusion. The imagination... | |
| John Milton - 1820 - Страниц: 342
...and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such asrais'd 550 To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
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