[Milton-L] Poetry Daily

[carl bellinger]

What about "melting" as applied [if I have it right]  to a human voice 
singing verse set to music?"

"The melting voice through mazes running"   L'Allegro

Does this "melting" sort with "liquid" per the discussion?

-Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Skulsky" <hskulsky at email.smith.edu>
To: <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Poetry Daily


>I wouldn't put it past JM to be perpetrating a latinism ("liquidus" = 
>clear; "quod liquet"), in which case the sense is nonfigurative. Otherwise, 
>yes, a garden variety metaphor: the birdnotes "flow."
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