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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. "
Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art - Page 173
by Noel Cobb - 1992 - 287 pages
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Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...a lute strung with his hair, means no more than strung •with gilded wire. WARBURTON. — '• — as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair.] The author of The Revisal supposes this expression to be allegorical, p. 138. " Apollo's lute strung...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...the tender horns of cockled snails ; Love's tongne proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the...; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Untill his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste: For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Ilesperides? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright...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...
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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 440 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, ia not love -a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hcsperides ? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? 2 Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste : For valoup, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ?2 Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright...hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the goda Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 456 pages
...hair; so that a lute strung with his hair means no more than strung with gilded wire. Warburton. " as sweet and musical " As bright Apollo's lute strung with his hair." The author of the Revisal supposes this expression to be allegorical, p. 138: " Apollo's lute strung...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...the tender horns of cockled snails ; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste: For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 460 pages
...golden hair ; so that a lute strung with his hair means no more than strung with gilded wire. Warhur^t. "—as sweet and musical " As bright. Apollo's lute strung with his hair." The author of the Revisal supposes this expression to be allegorical, p. 138 : " Apollo's lute strung...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 318 pages
...the tender horns of cockled snails ; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the...; 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...
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