...rage, Deliberate valour breath'd, firm and unmov'd With dread of death to flight or foul retreat ; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage, With solemn...and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they, Breathing united force, with fixed thought, Moved on in silence to soft pipes, that charm'd...

...anguish of the heart ;"* strains which, like the music described by Milton, could— " Mitigate and suage With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish,...sorrow, and pain From mortal or immortal minds." The disciples of Pythagoras composed their minds to sleep by soft and soothing airs played on the lyre,...

...and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat : Nor wanting power to mitigate and 'suage, With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and paiii, From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they, Breathing united force, with fixed thought, Moved...

...unmov'd, With dread of death, to flight or foul retreat ; Nor wanting power to mitignte ami 'suage. With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, ajid sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they, Breathing united force, with fixed...

...Verses containing one clipped and one untouched triple unit, are, however, not uncommon : — (42.) a. to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish rind doubl and fear and morrow nnd pain (PL, i, 558.) From mortal or immortal minds. h. Kul they Drendtd...

...of rage Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn...and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they, Breathing united force with fixed thought, Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed...

...ivory tones, vibrations, harmonies — mere vocal air, but charged with a message beyond sense : — Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn...and sorrow, and pain From mortal or immortal minds. In this hierarchy of forces, which, beginning with impacts and inertia, rise upward until they become...

...of harmony. Even from hell music is not banished, for the fallen angels move to the sound of — Not wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches...and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal and immortal minds. Never has the curiously consolatory effect of fine music been more accurately described....

...wisdom and universal truth,—achieving how much more than the effect which Milton ascribes to music: "Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage, With solemn...and sorrow and pain From mortal, or immortal minds." Perhaps as striking an illustration on a large scale as could be desired, of the connection between...

...and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat, Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage0 With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase...and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought 560 Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed...