 | Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - Drama - 1998 - 44 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste. For valor, is not love a Hercules, still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subde as Sphinx ... as sweet and musical as bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were tempered with love's sighs.... Oh, then his... | |
 | Frances Amelia Yates - History - 1999 - 520 pages
...the pedants, of both sides, had made of Christianity, the religion of love. For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ?...hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.1 These images in praise of love are uttered by Giordano Bruno's... | |
 | Frances Amelia Yates - History - 1999 - 252 pages
...Saturnian, not a wicked conjuror, for through his love, though black, he hears the universal harmony as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung...hair; And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.10 He assures his friends that in forswearing their oaths in order... | |
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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. 
