Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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 help him of his blindness ; And,... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 181
by William Shakespeare - 1806
Full view - About this book

Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...Julia, and is cheating Thurio, serenades Silvia while his forsaken Julia, disguised as a boy, listens: Host. How now? Are you sadder than you were before? How do you, man? The music likes you not. Jul. You mistake, the musician likes me not. Host. Why, my pretty youth? Jul....
Limited preview - About this book

Shakespeare's Hand

Jonathan Goldberg - Drama - 2003 - 398 pages
...Imagines perfection as rermination, an ultimare metamorphosis enforced by the tropes: Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling. She excels...dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring. (4.2.49-53) Much as do her repeared appearances on the balcony, the song suggests that Silvia's excellence...
Limited preview - About this book

Scene-speare! : Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors

William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price, Theatrefolk - Acting - 2004 - 168 pages
...fair and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels...sadder than you were before? How do you, man? The music likes you not. JULIA: You mistake; the musician likes me not. HOST: Why, my pretty youth? JULIA:...
Limited preview - About this book

Shakespeare's Songbook, Volume 1

Ross W. Duffin - Art - 2004 - 536 pages
...might ad - mi red be. To help him of his blindness: And being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia, let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels...dull earth dwelling. To her let us Garlands bring. HIS SONG SURVIVES without any indication of its original music. Its five-line stanzas do not fit many...
Limited preview - About this book

Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf - Fiction - 2005 - 1028 pages
...if a chair was empty. 'Ah,' sighed Clara, who stood beside Jacob, halfway through. 'Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels...dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring,' sang Elsbeth Siddons. 'Ah!' Clara exclaimed out loud, and clapped her gloved hands; and Jacob clapped...
Limited preview - About this book

Acting for Singers: Creating Believable Singing Characters

David F. Ostwald - Music - 2005 - 264 pages
...doth to her eyes repair. To help him of his blindness; And being help'd inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels...dull earth dwelling; To her let us garlands bring. In contrast to the previous analysis, the Given Circumstances of Shakespeare's character suggest the...
Limited preview - About this book

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde: War, Civilization, Modernity

Christine Froula - History - 2005 - 468 pages
...engagement in "22 Hyde Park Gate" (MB 165). 25. MB 93. In Jacob's Room someone sings "Who Is Silvia?": "She excels each mortal thing / Upon the dull earth dwelling. / To her let us garlands bring" (88). Virginia's beloved half sister, Stella Duckworth, died in 1897. 26. H 411. Sacks relates the...
Limited preview - About this book

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels...dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring. How now! are you sadder than you were before? How do you, man? the music likes you not. JULIA. You...
Limited preview - About this book

Be a Poet

Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...help him of his blindness, And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Sylvia let us sing, That Sylvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing Upon the...dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring. After Shakespeare, there were so many lovely art songs that it quite takes one's breath away, and I...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF