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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. "
Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists ... - Page 109
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...committing, and applies a plaister proportionable to the wound and to the scar. — Clarendon. CCCXXXIX. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink...ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. Shakspeare. CCCXL. science, honour, and credit, are all in one interest; and that without the concurrence...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...committing, and applies a plaister proportionable to the wound and to the scar. —Clarendon. CCCXXXIX. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink...ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. Shakspeare. CCCXL. The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity, until men are firmly...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...the Hesprridcs? 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...with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to wiite. Until his ink were tempcr'd with love's sighs ; 0, then his lines would ravish savage ears,...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Hesperides? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; A nd, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes...with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to wiite. Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears,...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...sighs ; lies The street should see as she walk'd over head. But whit of this 7 Are we not all in love ? O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eves this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages: Or, The Progress of Human Life

John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...from the custom of the times, and from his own amatory disposition. He has himself told us, that — Never durst POET touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love't sighs. " And we have seen that an opportunity for qualification was very early placed within...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.9 self, Lady Jane Grey, and her sisters, ike. re trite inet temperM with love's sighs ; O, then his linea would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility....
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The poetic negligée, by Caleb

W H. Armstrong - 1832 - 298 pages
...By (what the devil should it be, but by) her — wedding ring / LINES Written in a Lady's Album. " Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs." YE myrtle-crown'd nymphs, who in palm groves assemble, And 'fore whom all poets unwittingly tremble,...
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Lays of love

W H. Armstrong - 1832 - 286 pages
...By (what the devil should it be, but by) her — wedding ring ! LINES Written in a Lady's Album. " Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with love's §ighs." YE myrtle-crown'd nymphs, who in palm groves assemble, And 'fore whom...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...the Hesperides? 44) Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his eive me, sweet coz; what I do, is to pleasure you, coz: Can you love the maid? Slen. bis ink were temper'd with love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants...
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