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" But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. "
Mistress Davenant, the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Demonstrating the ... - Page 185
by Arthur Acheson - 1913 - 332 pages
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John of England

Henry Curling - 1846 - 1012 pages
...Mirabeau, thy life is forfeit." CHAPTER XI. THE OUTLAWS' CAVERN. But love, first learned in a lady's eye, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the...eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound. ****** For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides, Subtle as Sphinx,...
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Love's Labours Lost: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Literary Collections - 1969 - 284 pages
...keep the brain; And therefore, finding barren practisers, Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toi1. But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not...their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye; 330 A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, fWhen the suspicious...
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Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge

Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...Promethean fire. (295-300) » Love, says Berowne, contrasting it with the slow labors of book learning, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But with the...double power, Above their functions and their offices. (324-28) Berowne's opposition between "leaden contemplation" and the invigorating speed of love resembles...
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Shakespeare's Styles: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Muir

Philip Edwards - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...utters a splendid panegyric on love as the great vitalising principle within the human spirit, which gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. (II. 327-8) Inspired by this oration the King calls them to arms: Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers,...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...sophisticated they are as writers, the more they "break the rules." Here is some early Shakespeare: But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain. Learned and immured must be pronounced with two and three syllables. Much later he wrote, using the...
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Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...Appendix 505 as swift as thought proverbial {Dent A, and are of peculiar interest, since they T24O) And gives to every power a double power, Above their...offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye : A lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind. A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, 310 When the suspicious head...
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Shakespeare on Love: Quotations from the Plays & Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1991 - 108 pages
...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, Lives not alone...eagle blind. A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs: O then his lines...
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The Love Story in Shakespearean Comedy

Anthony J. Lewis - Drama - 1992 - 258 pages
...himself to union with a woman. In a long speech arguing against the courtiers' oaths, Berowne claims that "love, first learned in a lady's eyes, / Lives not alone immured in the brain" (IV.iii.324). However, when the men decide to forgo the principles of their academy, to open their...
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Standup Shakespeare

Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - Drama - 1998 - 44 pages
...... AND WHEN THOU WAK'ST, THOU TAK'ST, TRUE DELIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THY FORMER LADYS EYES ... FOOL. But love ... first learned in a lady's eyes, lives...above their functions and their offices. It adds a special seeing to the eye ... a lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind. A lover's ear will hear the lowest...
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Cupid's Arrow: The Course of Love Through Time

Robert J. Sternberg - Family & Relationships - 1998 - 222 pages
...appearance of the beloved. A lover's vision may become supersensitive, as in Love's Labour's Lost: [Love] adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes...an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound.4 Sometimes what the lover sees is not reality, however, but pure fantasy. The lover's vision...
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