Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences... James Watt - Page 239by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The...Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 516 pages
...been all in all his study: List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The...Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still6, And the. mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...study : List ' his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render 'd you in musick : charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal hi« sweet and honeyed... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...public business, and to whom the most important affairs of state are as familiar as his weekly bills. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter." The difference, in short, between a political pamphlet by Johnson, and a political pamphlet by Swift,... | |
| Christopher Legge Lordan - 1843 - 224 pages
...3. truest import. Familiar with the world within world, man, as with the hornbook of his infancy, ' Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter.' You alluded to the multiplicity of poetical beauties which distinguishes the page of Shakspeare, and... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 pages
...international law ; but to him might be applied Shakspere's well-known passage on Henry V. : — " Turn him tu any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter :" And the proof of it is the statement made by Sir Herbert Jenncr, and other distinguished persons,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 470 pages
...been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The...Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks. The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd... | |
| Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 296 pages
...meaning, truest import. Familiar with the world within world, man, as with the hornbook of his infancy, " Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter." You alluded to the multiplicity of poetical beauties which distinguish the page of Shakspeare, and... | |
| Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 294 pages
...truest import. Familiar with the world within world, man, as with the hornbook of his infancy, " Tarn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter." You alluded to the multiplicity of poetical beauties which distinguish the page of Shakspeare, and... | |
| 1844 - 324 pages
...(list-nurse in war, and you should hear A fearful battle rendered you in music : Turn him to any cauae of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as bis garter ; that when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still And the mute wonder lurketh... | |
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