...taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; 680 And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never...

...taste: For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Ilesperides? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung...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...

...taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung...; 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...

...strung with his hair, means no more than strung with gilded wire. WARBURTON. Line 7jJ5- And, when lace speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.] A very ingenious friend observes, that the meaning of the passage is this: That the voice of all the...

...taste For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? 2 Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung...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...

...taste : For valour, ia not love -a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hcsperides ? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung...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 with love's sighs ; O,...

...taste : For valoup, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ?2 Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung...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...

...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...

...taste: For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung...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...

...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...