 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...the Hespéridos ? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the...write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; 0, then his lines would ravish savage ears, Ami plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes... | |
 | Zachariah Jackson - 1819 - 504 pages
...have acted like men of strange inconstancy, ie like men devoid of stability. III. — page 126. BIRON. And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven, drowsy with the harmony. Mr. Tyrwhitt observes, " few passages have been more canvassed than this."' The changing a single letter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...the Hesperides? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And when love speaks, the voice of all the...write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; 0, then his lines would ravish savage ears, , And plant in tyrants mild humility* Prom women's eyes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 500 pages
...nonsense we should read and point thus : " And when love speaks the voice of all the gods, " Mark, heaven drowsy with the harmony." Never durst poet...write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; ie in the voice of love alone is included the voice of all the gods. Alluding to that ancient theogony,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...strike more dead " Than common sleep, of all these five the sense." Again, in Love's Labour's Lost : " And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods " Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony." So also in The Tempest, Act I. when Alonzo,, Gonzalo, &c. are to be overpowered by sleep, Ariel, to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with THE harmony.] This nonsense we should read and point thus : Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; ie in the voice of love alone is included the voice of all the gods. Alluding to that ancient theogony,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...is, — whenever love speaks, all the gods join their voices with his in harmonious concert. HEATH. O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. " Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony." The old copies read make. The alteration was made by Sir T.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 344 pages
...their Amandas are often the shadows of some real object; for as Shakespeare's experience told him, " Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs." Their imagination is perpetually colouring those pictures of domestic happiness they delight to dwell... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...in the Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his nam d the fifth, Was in the mouth of every su temper d with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ;7 And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes...durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild... | |
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Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 
