...ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: 350 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They...fools you were these women to forswear, Or keeping whit is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love, Or for love's sake,...

...ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : 350 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; ^~(...excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, 355 ' Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,...

...love is "first learned in a lady's eyes "and "lives not alone immured in the brain." From womeii's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Fancy, the poet elsewhere says, is bred not in the head but in the heart. It is engendered in the eyes,...

...sighs; Oh then his lines would ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humanity. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive; They sparkle still the...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. This omnipotence of love, to conquer the most recalcitrant, is illustrated again in Much Ado About...

.... . . 342: Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper" d with Love's sighs: 0 then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant...academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world: Eise none at all in aiight proves excellent". Seine letzten Worte berühren sich ganz nah mit Overbury:...

...Shakespeare's first comedy, " Love's Labour's Lost," makes his lyric confession of a lover's faith : — " From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle...world : Else none at all in aught proves excellent." % Tasso in his vSle of pastoral dramatist soon found a formidable Italian rival in his disciple Guarini,...

...love that women's eyes engender, Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world It is of course always dangerous to use a great set speech in Shakespeare as evidence for the character...

...heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world; 350 Then fools you were these women to forswear; Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For...

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...Berowne is no less soaring in his praise of the new feminine ideal that justifies renouncing the oath: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (IV.iii. 354-358) In an earlier version of the same speech (which Bevington prints in his Textual Notes)...