...Shakespearian student compare them with the thesis maintained by Biron in Love's Labour Lost (IV, iii) : ' From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.' Biron's speech being a humourously sophistical maintenance of a thesis in scholastic form — not noticing...

...dignified procession. See Glossary. 122. love's richest book. Cf. Love's labour's Lost, iv. 3. 350 — " From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world"; and Romeo and Juliet, i. 3. 8 1 — " Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And what obscured...

...to write Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; Oh, then his lines would ravish savage ear* And plant In tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes...world : Else none at all in aught proves excellent." This grouping of Moliere's plays as Italian, Gallic, time-serving, militant, and histrionic, in accordance...

...surpasses this. Let me quote one passage, however, which must have delighted Steele, if he ever saw it : From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world ; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Shakespeare's heroines are among the most admirable women in literature. In fact, he has, as Ruskin...

...harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper 'd with Love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant...fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, 332 the suspicions head of theft] This seems equivalent to " the head suspicious of theft." The general...

...learn his wit to exchange the bad for better. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II, Sc. 6. YOUTH AND POETRY FROM women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV, Sc. 3. FOR when would you, my liege, or you, or you, In leaden contemplation...

...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 savage ears, And plant...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...

...I, Sc. 2. 87 conceits: far-fetched similes or parallelisms. From Love's Labour's Lost, for instance: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. (Act IV, Sc. 3.) From As You Like It: ... it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,...

...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 savage ears, And plant...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...

...labours of Hercules was to obtain the note to Appendix All). 9. golden apples from a tree growing in a They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show,...excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, 330 Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love, Or...