| William Shakespeare - Jews - 2003 - 156 pages
...touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, 75 Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music. Therefore the poet...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. 80 The man... | |
| Johannes Brahms, Siegmund Levarie - Quotations, English - 2003 - 396 pages
...touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet...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 man that... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2003 - 242 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...feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, 80 Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature.... | |
| Patrick Cheney - History - 2004 - 346 pages
...therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stock fish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;... | |
| Charles Martindale, A. B. Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2011 - 340 pages
...human nature:17 Therefore the poes 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. (5.1-78-81) Editots commonly refer the allusion to the Metomorphoses, which recounts how Orpheus brings... | |
| Arthur Robert Peacocke, Ann Pederson - Religion - 2006 - 118 pages
...but upon which it is impossible to be silent. Anonymous, attributed to Victor Hugo 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. Mark the music.... | |
| Ernest Schanzer - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...of character, and the comment that Cassius hears no music reminds one of Lorenzo's 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 (Merchant of... | |
| Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...the most famous passage is contained in Lorenzo's speech in the Merchant of Venice glorifying . . . the sweet power of music: therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods . . . Vi The lines which Old Capulet speaks in Romeo and Juliet at the beginning of Act IV, scene iv... | |
| G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...regarded as a force of great power: according to Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, there is "naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage/ But music for the time doth change his nature." Yet vocal music holds an even higher place. As a kind of rational music, enriched by language and the... | |
| Martin Lings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 228 pages
...particular element, so persistently neglected today, is of an importance that can scarcely be overestimated. Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees,...But music for the time doth change his nature. (The Merchant of Venice, V, 1, 79-82) These last words anticipate our final chapter, for they reflect an... | |
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