 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...gross in taste. For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's...hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...on love introduces some exquisite classical allusions, used with fine imaginative freedom : Subtle as Sphinx : as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair.28 Few are the sentences in Shakespeare that seem to have been suggested by a direct memory of... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...suggests that the courtships now be pursued openly: . . . when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs: O then his lines would ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1991 - 108 pages
...gross in taste. For valor, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtile as Sphinx, as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's...hair. And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love's Labor's Lost (4.3) love, first learned in a lady's eyes,... | |
 | Noel Cobb - 1992 - 292 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste. For valor, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's...hair. And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never dared poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temp'red... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...gross in taste: For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hespéridos? Subtle rt Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...gross in taste. For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's...hair; And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. (4.3.310-21) A summary of the structure of the scene, while it... | |
 | Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - 1998 - 44 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste. For valor, is not love a Hercules, still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subde as Sphinx ... as sweet and musical as bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were tempered with love's sighs.... Oh, then his... | |
 | Frances Amelia Yates - 1999 - 520 pages
...religion of love. For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's...hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.1 These images in praise of love are uttered by Giordano Bruno's... | |
 | Frances Amelia Yates - 1999 - 252 pages
...Saturnian, not a wicked conjuror, for through his love, though black, he hears the universal harmony as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung...hair; And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.10 He assures his friends that in forswearing their oaths in order... | |
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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. 
