 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; 680 And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper" d with love's sighs ; O, then his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...Ilesperides? 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. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; O, then his lines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...strung with his hair, means no more than strung with gilded wire. WARBURTON. Line 7jJ5- And, when lace speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.] A very ingenious friend observes, that the meaning of the passage is this: That the voice of all the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...Hesperides ? 2 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. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; O, then his lines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 456 pages
...poets' sinews," is extremely beautiful, and highly figurative. Apollo, as the LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. 95 And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 5 sun, is represented with golden hair; so that a lute strung with his hair means no more than strung... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 440 pages
...Hcsperides ? 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 harmnny. Never diirst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...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 gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 460 pages
...lute, strung with his hair;] This expression, like that other in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, of — And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.5 sun, is represented with golden hair ; so that a lute strung with his hair means no more... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 318 pages
...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 gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...Hosperides? 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 harmony1. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; O,... | |
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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. 
