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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. "
Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream - Page 69
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 500 pages
...nonsense we should read and point thus : " And when love speaks the voice of all the gods, " Mark, heaven drowsy with the harmony." Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; ie in the voice of love alone is included the voice of all the gods. Alluding...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...strike more dead " Than common sleep, of all these five the sense." Again, in Love's Labour's Lost : " And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods " Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony." So also in The Tempest, Act I. when Alonzo,, Gonzalo, &c. are to be overpowered by sleep, Ariel, to...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx; as sweet and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; d the fifth, Was in the mouth of every su ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From n omen's eyes this doctrine 1 derive : They sparkle...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Midsummer night's ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ;7 And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes...durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...Hesperides 2 ? 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...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....
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...Heeperides :J 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...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...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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 Makes...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....
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...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 Makes...durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs. O, then bis lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...Hespendes? 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...durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; 0, then his lines would ravish savage care, And plant in tyrants mild...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 11

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 600 pages
...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 Makes...durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were tempcr'd with love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility!...
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