| Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...respond to music: Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature. Music is thus at the very heart of God's creation, and the musician, by tapping our innate sensitivity... | |
| William Shakespeare - Comics & Graphic Novels - 2000 - 132 pages
...touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods,142 80 Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change... | |
| Lawrence Kramer - Music - 2002 - 350 pages
...both the creators of Florentine opera and for Shakespeare, whose mythographic account is exemplary: The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones,...But music for the time doth change his nature. (The Merchant of Venice, V. 1.79-82) Charismatic singers of both sexes have kept the figure alive to the... | |
| Carol Rawlings Miller - Education - 2001 - 84 pages
...This precious stone set in the silver sea I am never merry when I hear sweet music The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not mov'd with concord...treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night Irresistible Shakespeare Scholastic Professional Books Date Ti D HP IkT °... | |
| Redvers Brandling - Education - 2002 - 206 pages
...thought and discussion here. It would need to be adapted for use with young children: The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord...treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted' (The Merchant... | |
| John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon - Comedy - 2002 - 476 pages
...politics of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since naught so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for...change his nature, — The man that hath no music in himself. Nor is not moved with the concord of sweet sounds, ls fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest 2 naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man... | |
| G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...Merchant of Venice, how Orphean music was feigned to draw 'trees, stones, and floods' by its magic, Since nought so stockish hard and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature, (vi 8 1) it is Caliban who speaks the loveliest music lines in Shakespeare, Caliban distraught to pain... | |
| Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 212 pages
...transforms hard-up courtiers and scheming runaway couples into dedicated lovers by the agency of music: Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. (v, i, 81-2) 'For the time' is a realistic, if not a sceptical touch, just as it is realistic if not... | |
| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...then arises: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. (The Merchant of Venice, 5.1.79-82) If the acknowledgement of 'the poet' is not merely conventional, Shakespeare... | |
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