 hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 5by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Valerie Grosvenor Myer - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 184 pages
...The Tempest (III.i.39ff.): Full many a lady I've eyed with best regard; and many a time Th'harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear. For sev'ral virtues Have I lik'd sev'ral women. Never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did... | |
 | Jan Kott - Drama - 1987 - 165 pages
...again when Ferdinand opposes their deceiving voices to Miranda's innocent charm: "and many a time / Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage / Brought my too diligent ear" (3.1.40-42). Shakespeare took the most dangerous of Prospero's spells from Medea in Ovid's Metamorphoses... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 220 pages
...What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady 40 I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought...Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her 45 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil:... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 183 pages
...the hazards of the courtly idiom: Full many a lady I have ey'd with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear. . . . (3.1.39-42) The "diligent" ear's bondage in this instance presumably involves flattering speech.... | |
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