 Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels Resembles nearest; mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.  Readings on the Paradiso of Dante - Page 27by William Warren Vernon - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1882 - 822 pages
...Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem ; " and reciting how "In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted." The first is by FR Havergal, a lady whose real poetic talent has not yet received the attention it... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1909 - 628 pages
...own three great poets have also celebrated this theory. Compare Chaucer, The Parlement of Foules, ll. 60-63 :— " And after that the melodye herde he That...to Dante in the above-mentioned Somnium Scipionis, in-the Sixth Book of Cicero's De Republica (cap. xviii, § 18) in which Masinissa is supposed to explain... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1909 - 632 pages
...patines of bright gold : There's not the smallest orb which thou beboldest But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims:...out, ye crystal spheres Once bless our human ears." • \ temperi e discerni : Casini remarks that the Commentators on the Paradiso have, for the most... | |
 | 1909 - 388 pages
...nearest ; mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her...charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted. It is by such approximations as these that Milton conveys the sense of an interchangeability between... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 pages
...nearest ; mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her...charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted. Evening now approached (For we have also our evening and our morn — We qurs for change delectable,... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1912 - 1050 pages
...nearest, mazes intricate, Kccentrick, intervolvoil, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem : And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her...charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted. (rf) Carelesse of porill in their fiers aflret, As if that life to losse they had forelent. (*) . .... | |
 | Adam Reusse - 1913 - 140 pages
...with besotted base ingratitude „Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder." 11. harmony, fem. PLst. V 625: „And in their motions harmony divine „So smooths...charming tones that God's own ear „Listens delighted." 12. Heresie, fem. 1. 212 (54) : „He re sie begat Heresie with a certain monstrous haste of pregnancy... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...nearest ; mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine , So smooths her...charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted. Evening now approached (For we have also our evening and our morn — We ours for change delectable,... | |
 | John Milton - 1918 - 236 pages
...released her. For the same treatment of music as an abstract personification cf. PL v. 625 — 627: . "And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her...charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted." Crashaw (Musicks Duel!) speaks of the " precious mysteries that dwell In Music's ravished soul." 145.... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 pages
...intricate, Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem : And in thir motions harmony Divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted. Ev'ning now approach'd (For wee have also our Ev'ning and our Morn, Wee ours for change delectable,... | |
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