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" Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. "
The Book of Elizabethan Verse - Page 391
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The Myths of Greece & Rome

H. A. Guerber, Hélène Adeline Guerber - Social Science - 1993 - 500 pages
...musical and poetical gifts. " Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops, that free2e, Bow themselves when he did sing : To his music plants...billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by." Shakespeare, This talent waxed greater as the years passed by, and became so remarkable, that the youth's...
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Virgil as Orpheus: A Study of the Georgics

M. Owen Lee - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 192 pages
...preface and conclude the descriptions of work, there is prayer. VI BOOK 2: TREES AND VINES Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that...as sun and showers There had made a lasting Spring. —(Shakespeare, Henry VIII) Virgil's second book deals with trees and vines, from the time they are...
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Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's Poetical Sketches

Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...Shakespearean rhymed verse which begin, 'Orpheus with his lute made trees' ['/ And the mountain tops that freeze, / Bow themselves when he did sing. /...sun and showers / There had made a lasting spring.' (Henry VII Ill.i)]" (Rossetti 123). This manuscript offers further evidence of an extraordinary concern...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing. To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung, as0 sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. O14 Francis Bacon, from The Wisdom of the Ancients, 1609. Trans, from Latin by Sir Arthur Gorges, 16190...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing . 5 To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun...that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, 10 Hung their heads and then lay by . In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 476 pages
...Ever sprung, as0 sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard him play, E\rn the billows of the sea. Hung their heads, and then...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. Ol4 Francis Bacon, from The Wisdom of the Ancients, l609. Trans, from Latin by Sir Arthnr Gorges, l6l90...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Da dum de de dum. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea,...care and grief of heart Fall asleep or, hearing, die. Da dum de de dum."4 (The bugle, snare drum and french horn take over, reaching a crescendo as the lights...
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The Shakespearian Tempest: With a Chart of Shakespeare's Dramatic Universe

G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...which tells of Orpheus whose music won response from 'trees', and was like 'sun and showers' to make 'a lasting spring' : Everything that heard him play,...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. (HI. i. 9) A clear sea-grief association; and a vivid music-tragedy contrast. Queen Katharine speaks...
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Monteverdi's Musical Theatre

Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter, Tim Carter - Music - 2002 - 348 pages
...achievement as a man of the theatre. 5 Orfeo (1607) Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To...as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...cried to dream again. Caliban — Tempest IIIM Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing: To his...as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In...
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