 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...— " Tis as easy as lying," retorts the satirical prince ; " govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb ; give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent Music : look ye, these are the stops." — " But these M2 cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ;... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1841 - 806 pages
...possible degree of perspicuity. " Will you play upon this pipe. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb : give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music." The recorder will speak, — not hy an operation of the mind, but by the operations prescribed by the... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1843 - 350 pages
...Besides " speak" in the present passage answers to "discourse" in tlie preceding speech of Hamlet ; " govern these ventages with your finger and thumb,...mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music." SCENE 3.— C. p. 284. " A villain kills my father ; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...know no touch of it, my lord. Ham. 'T is as easy as lying : govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...know no touch of it, my lord. Ham. 'Tis as easy as lying : govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...know no touch of it, my lord. Ham. 'T is as easy as lying : govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...freely for " surely," omits " but," and reads of for upon of the quartos. with your finger and thumb7, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music8. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...fnely for " surely," omits " but," and reads of for upon of the quartos. with your finger and thumb7, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music8. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...I cannot. Ham. I do beseech you. Guil. I know no touch of it, my lord. Ham. 'Tis as easy as lying : govern these ventages * with your finger and thumb,...mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony : I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...cannot. Ham. I do beseech you. Guil. I know no touch of it , my lord. Ham. It is as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and thumb ,...mouth , and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony : I have... | |
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Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you... 
