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" 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: And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. "
The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical ... - Page 397
1820
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Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...cockled snails j Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...cockled snails ; Love's tongne proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as...; 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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...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...
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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 440 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, ia not love -a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hcsperides ? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright...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,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste : For valoup, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ?2 Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright...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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 456 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste ; For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? 3 Subtle as sphinx; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; 4 pursuit of his mistress has his sense of hearing quicker than a thief (who suspects every sound he...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 460 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste ; For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?3 Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;4 i the suspicious head of theft it stopp'd.] ie a lover in pursuit of his mistress has his sense...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...Bacchus gross in For valour, is not love a Hercules, [taste ; Still climbing trees in tlie Hosperides? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet and musical, As bright...voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony1. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; O,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...snails ; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : , For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as...musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ;T And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.» Never durst...
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Aphorisms from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...Hercules, . . • ;; -Sail climbing trees iu the Hesperides : Subtile as Spk.ynx: as sweet and musical _, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ? ....all the Gods Makes Heaven drowsy * with the Harmony. 234,8. Never durst Poet touch a pen .to write, Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs: And then...
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