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" 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 Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter... "
The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan - Page 316
by Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866
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The Soldier of Fortune ...

Henry Curling - 1843 - 310 pages
...study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle, rendered you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still ; And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears....
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Colloquies, desultory and diverse, but chiefly upon poetry and poets. [by C ...

Christopher Legge Lordan - 1843 - 224 pages
...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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 470 pages
...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 Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garte'r ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine , is still , And the mute wonder lurketh in...
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 348 pages
...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 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...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...study : List ' his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render 'd you in musick : Turn N O8 4 4 4 ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's...
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London, Volume 5

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,...
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Colloquies, Desultory, But Chiefly Upon Poetry and Poets: Between an Elder ...

Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 296 pages
...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...
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South-western Law Journal and Reporter, Volume 1

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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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 pages
...made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar aa his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 592 pages
...study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, 9 Never came reformation in a flood,] Alluding to the method by which Hercules...
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