...air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes tum'd . 3 stockist!, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath...

...said to have yielded to the spell of Orpheus's lyre; cf. Shakespeare Mercliant of Venice, 5.1.79ff.: Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees,...rage But music for the time doth change his nature. 9. arte materna: ie, the skill imparted by his mother, the muse Calliope. 10. lapsus: downward courses....

...were so well known that they did not have to be named. In The Metthant of Venne, Shakespeare writes, 'Therefore the poet / Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods' (5.1.79-80) - the poet is not named because it is assumed that everyone will know it is Ovid (mough...

...hear this harmony, but we retain a buried memory of it; and that is why we instinctively respond to music: Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew...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...

...air of music touch their ears. You shall perceive them make a mutual stand.0 Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music. Therefore the poet 80 Did feign0 that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Since naught so stockish,0 hard, and full...

...air of music 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,...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...

...both the creators of Florentine opera and for Shakespeare, whose mythographic account is exemplary: The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature. (The Merchant...

...condition of their blood: If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their...that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man...

...Lorenzo details the power of music over wild animals; the exemplary mythological association then arises: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees,...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...

...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...