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" Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired' be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To... "
The Book of Elizabethan Verse - Page 169
edited by - 1907 - 823 pages
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The Works of Shakespeare: Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of ...

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swaius commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heavens such grace did lend her, That she might admired be....Is she kind, as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kinduess: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blinduess; And, being help'd, inhabits there....
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Monthly Packet, Volume 14

1872 - 642 pages
...continued.) LITTLE OLGA'S STORY. BY MRS. JEROME MERCIEB. PART I. — IN POLAND. CHAPTER IV. CHRISTMAS EVE. ' Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with...his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there.' Two Gentlemen of Verona. I WAS dressed on that memorable evening, in my best rose-coloured woollen...
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Shakespeare's comedy of the Two gentlemen of Verona, with notes, adapted for ...

William Shakespeare - 1873 - 112 pages
...plays. Host. Hark ! hark ! Jul. Is he among these ? Host. Ay : but peace, let's hear 'em. SONG. Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend...eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal...
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Anthologia Anglica, a new selection from the English poets from Spenser to ...

Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...and thou seem'st a palace For the crowned Truth to dwell in. Pericles, v. L SONGS. I. SILVIA.' WHO is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend...repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling : She excels each mortal...
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Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1873 - 110 pages
...plays. Host. Hark ! hark ! Jul. Is he among these ? Host. Ay : but peace, let 's hear 'em. SONG. Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend...such grace did lend her, That she might admired * be. 1 Admired] Wondered at. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 3-4

Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she. The heavens such gi-ace did lend her, That ehe e to think of you, world, at all ; And yet, when I said my prayers helped, inhabita there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal...
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The Works of William Shakspere

William Shakespeare - 1873 - 814 pages
...is Silvia Î what is she, Thrit all our swains commend her ! Holy, fair, and wise is she. The hoaven . Mor. Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, Let dying...himself. Kven like a man new haled from the rack, So fa lier eyes repair, To help li'in of his blindness; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia...
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Lyrics of love, from Shakespeare to Tennyson, selected and ..., Issue 651

Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...is Sylvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The heavens such grace did lend her, That she might admired be....repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Sylvia let us sing, That Sylvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 602 pages
...Jul. Is he among these? Host. Ay ; but peace ! let 's hear 'em. SONG. Who is Silvia» what is she t That all our swains commend her : Holy, fair, and...she ; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she nii^'ht admired be. Is she kind, Я5 she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her...
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Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe

Muriel Clara Bradbrook - Drama - 1989 - 238 pages
...suitors to be sung at Silvia's window - in Schubert's setting, the best known words of this play: Who is Silvia? what is she That all our swains commend...such grace did lend her That she might admired be. (IV.ii.38-42.) 'Admired' - a wonder, like the 'most admired' Miranda; not a mortal but to her lover...
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