 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled 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 sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...sensible, Than are tire tender horns of cockled snails; Love's tongue proves dainty Baechus gross in taite: 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;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled 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 sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...cockled grain. Gar. * COCKLED, adj. [from cockle.'} Shelled ; or perhaps cochleate, turbinated.— Love's feeling is more foft and fenfible, Than are the tender horns of cockled \nz\h. Shak. COCKLEFORD, a hamle^ near Elkfton, in Gloucefterfhire. COCKLF-SHELL BAY, a bay on the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled 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 sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gtossin 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled 6 snails ; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides 7 ? s — the suspicious head of THEFT is stopp'd ;] ie a lover in pursuit of his mistress... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled snails ; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Heeperides :J Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled 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 sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...Than are the tender horns of cockled l snails; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in 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 .with his hair;... | |
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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. 
