 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...his 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...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 honeyed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...his 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...unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, 9 Never came reformation in a fiood,] Alluding to the method by which Hercules cleansed the famous... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 346 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...gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his gai ter ; that, when he speaks. The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...perfect horn-book for the use of the minister, and the instruction of rising politicians. LORD ERSKINE. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter." " Whenhe speaks, the air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...DIXitN's, 19, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR or THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT PEEL. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter." SUAKSTEARE. FOLJ.OWING up the intention expressed in our last number, we have selected for the subject... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...were 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 as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...were 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 as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...were 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 as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 996 pages
...his study : List bis discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rcnder'd you in musick : no l * Fumnar aa his garter ; that, when he speaks, Toe air, a cbartcr'd libertine, is still, Aad the mute... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 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...knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still ; And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,... | |
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