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" From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world... "
The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost - Page 106
by William Shakespeare - 1906 - 183 pages
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Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era

Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 pages
...youth. The pledge to study they shall honor by devoting themselves to their ladies, for a woman's eyes are "the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain and nourish all the world." As Schlegel observes, the play could well end with this scene, "der Gipfel des Ganzen," at the end...
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Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...with Love's sighs. O then his lines would ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; )10 sound,] ROWE; - . OF 311 head] OF; heed WILSON 314 daintyA] F2; ~, OF 31 5- ih Hercules, . ....
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Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art

Noel Cobb - 1992 - 292 pages
...Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear; Or, keeping...
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The Love Story in Shakespearean Comedy

Anthony J. Lewis - 1992 - 258 pages
...Shakespeare's women ultimately wind up doing. Though Navarre and his courtiers agree early on that women's eyes "sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are...academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world" (IV. iii. 348-50), the men ultimately learn that women must teach them in a far less inspirational...
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Mythic Astrology: Internalizing the Planetary Powers

Ariel Guttman, Gail Guttman, Kenneth Johnson - 1993 - 404 pages
...women's eyes thw doctrtne 1 dertve: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the hooks, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world: — Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV, III The Hindu god Varima, akin to the Greek Oaranw Uranus...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility. From erwards Duke of Clarence, I RICHARD, afterwards Duke...EARL OF PEMBROKE. LORD HASTINGS. LORD STAFFORD. D Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, Or keeping...
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Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Mark Breitenberg - 1996 - 240 pages
...is no less soaring in his praise of the new feminine ideal that justifies renouncing the oath: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...academes. That show, contain, and nourish all the world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (IV.iii. 354-358) In an earlier version of the same speech...
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Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies

Michael J. Collins - 1997 - 268 pages
...found out Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with? From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (4.3.295-351) Yet Berowne has begun the scene with a very...
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Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England

Eve Rachele Sanders - 1998 - 288 pages
...women. He then collapses those clauses into one; seeing women, it turns out, is a form of study: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. (4.3.324-7) The sonnets which the four men addressed to their loves provide the grounds for Berowne's...
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Standup Shakespeare

Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - 1998 - 44 pages
...ravish savage ears, and plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes, this doctrine I derive ... they are the books, the arts, the academes that show, contain, and nourish all the world. And when Love speaks, the voice of all the Gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. PIANIST. AND...
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