 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pagini
...them make a mutual stand— Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of musick. Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But musick for the time doth change his nature. The man... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pagini
...them make a mutual stand— Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of musick. Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But musick for the time doth change his nature. The man... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pagini
...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,...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... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pagini
...doctrinal implications, is Lorenzo's reflection on the powers of music in the final scene of MV: LOT. . . . therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees,...rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. (5.1. 79ff.) What is suggestive about Lorenzo's otherwise unsurprising allusion is 142 the quasi-philosophical... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pagini
...metaphysical harmony of natural order and the equable balance of human temperament, as in Merchant 5.1.81-8 - 'naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage ! But music for the time doth change his nature. I The man that hath no music in himself, I Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, I Is fit... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pagini
...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. [Vi71-82]... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 pagini
...peace and harmony reign. Lorenzo presents Jessica with the example of wild beasts made "modest" by music: therefore 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 man... | |
 | E. Michael Jones - 1994 - 214 pagini
...modest gaze By the sweet power of music. Orpheus could even get "trees, stones and floods" dancing, Since naught so stockish, hard and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature. Since even brute nature succumbs to the divine order made explicit in music, the only thing that can... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells - 1994 - 312 pagini
...influence, he gives her a conventional interpretation of the Orpheus story: therefore the Poet Did fain that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since naught so stockish hard and full of rage, But musique for the time doth change his nature. (vi 79-82) But not even Lorenzo's eloquence and the sentimental... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pagini
...savage creatures: 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...music for the time doth change his nature . . . (The Merchant of Venice, Vi. 75-82) The significance of the Orpheus myth for Shakespeare is that the poet's... | |
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For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud Which is the hot condition of their blood, If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears,... 
