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" 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 would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.... "
The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ... - Page 391
by William Shakespeare - 1851
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare: Being Extracts from His Prose and Verse

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 228 pages
...learn his wit to exchange the bad for better. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II, Sc. 6. YOUTH AND POETRY FROM women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV, Sc. 3. FOR when would you, my liege, or you, or you, In leaden contemplation...
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The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 244 pages
...are thus gracefully expanded in the corrected version which has so fortunately descended to us,— "From women's eyes this doctrine I derive; They sparkle...contain, and nourish all the world; Else none at all in ought proves excellent." Love's Labor's Lost is mentioned by Tofte and Meres in 1598, and was no doubt...
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Life of Shakespeare

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 236 pages
...are thus gracefully expanded in the corrected version which has so fortunately descended to us, — "From women's eyes this doctrine I derive; They sparkle...contain, and nourish all the world; Else none at all in ought proves excellent." Love's Labor's Lost is mentioned by Tofte and Meres in 1598, and was no doubt...
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Comedy of Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare - 1910 - 188 pages
...drowsy with the harmony. / / 340 Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, a* Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love, 5 Or...
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Works ...

William Shakespeare - 1910 - 254 pages
...Make 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 would ravish...fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, 350 That show, contain, and nourish all the world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Then...
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The Complete Dramatic and Poetic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1906 - 1290 pages
...ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : s» h me ? Beseech your Highness, не My women may be...When you shall know your mistress Has deserv'd pris yon were these women to forswear, M» Or keeping what is sworn, yon will prove fools. For wisdom's...
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Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare - 1912 - 180 pages
...ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : 350 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; ^~(...excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, 355 ' Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,...
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Chivalry in English Literature: Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare

William Henry Schofield - Literary Criticism - 1912 - 316 pages
...love is "first learned in a lady's eyes "and "lives not alone immured in the brain." From womeii's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Fancy, the poet elsewhere says, is bred not in the head but in the heart. It is engendered in the eyes,...
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How to Read Shakespeare: A Guide for the General Reader

James Stalker - 1913 - 316 pages
...sighs; Oh then his lines would ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humanity. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive; They sparkle still the...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. This omnipotence of love, to conquer the most recalcitrant, is illustrated again in Much Ado About...
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Das Elisabethanische Ideal der Ehefrau bei Overbury (1613)

Irmgard von Ingersleben - Married women in literature - 1921 - 120 pages
.... . . 342: Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper" d with Love's sighs: 0 then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant...academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world: Eise none at all in aiight proves excellent". Seine letzten Worte berühren sich ganz nah mit Overbury:...
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