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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. "
Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour ... - Page 409
by William Shakespeare - 1773
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Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream

William Shakespeare - 1788
...us, in Damon and Pythias : 4 " A heavy " A heavy pouch with golde makes a light hart." FARMER. 677. For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ?] The • poet is here observing how all the senses are refined by love. But what has the...
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1790 - 596 pages
...blind ; Λ lover's ear will hear the loweft found, When the fufpicious 6 head of theft is ftopp'ds And this his fon ; England wns Geffrey's right, And this is Geffrey's : In the name o ; ' In heraldry, a crrß is a device placed above a coat of arms. Shakfpeare therefore ufes it here...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1790 - 554 pages
...blind ; A lover's ear will hear the loweft found, "When the fufpicious head of theft is ftopp'd * ; Love's feeling is more foft, and fenfible, Than are the tender horns of cockled fnails ; 6 — oar books; ] ie our true books, from which we derire moS informa:ion;—the eyis of women....
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1791 - 704 pages
...is yours; which, with a fnaffle, you may pace eafy, but not fuch a wife - - Ant. and CJrt. Sacilt. Love's feeling is more foft, and fenfible, than are the tender horns of cocUerl inails * • • • Lovf'f L&b. l^fi. 1614 ASPCL r ir 949* i 2, 541 : i, 341 5 5- M" vj '3...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791
...Than arc the tender horns of cockled (hails •, Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus grofs ill taftc; H- Hcfperides? Subtle as Sphinx;. as fweet and mufical As bright Apollo's lute, ftrung with his hair;...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 582 pages
...controverted, by a writer who iigns himfelf Lucius in Tbt Edinburgh Magazine, Nov. 1786. " The Ju/ficiout Love's feeling is more foft, and fenfible, Than are...is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hefperides?' Subtle as fphinx ; as fweet, and mufical, As bright Apollo's lute, ftrung with his hair;4...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 828 pages
...report, advent'rous by defire, in which fenfc the word is certainly ufed in the paflage now before us: " For valour, is not love a Hercules, " Still climbing trees in the Hefperides?" In the firft quarto edition of this play, this lady is only called Antiocbus' daughter....
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Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1795 - 380 pages
...blind! • A lover's ear will hear the loweft found, ' When the fufpicious head of theft is ilopt. ' Love's feeling is more foft and fenfible, ' Than are...is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hefperides? Subtle as Sphinx ; as fweet and mufical As bright Apollo's lute, ftrung with his hair:...
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The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems

William Shakespeare - 1796 - 422 pages
...eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the loweft found, When the fufpicious head of thrift is ftopt. Love's feeling is more foft and fenfible Than are...tongue proves dainty Bacchus grofs in tafte ; For favour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hefperides ? Subtle as Sphinx ! as fweet...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 478 pages
...the lowed found. When the fufpicious head of theft is ftopt. Love's feeling is more foft and fcnfible Than are the tender horns of cockled fnails. Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus grofs in For valour, is not love λ Hercules, [taftc. Still climbing trees in the Hcfperidcs ? Subtle as Sphinx...
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