 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 Seiten
...shows are more than will; for still we prove Much in our vows but little in our love. Act 4, Sc. 2 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...[Music plays. HOST. Hark, hark! JULIA. Is he among these? HOST. Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em. Song. sh nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. If ye heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty... | |
 | Laurence Senelick - 1997 - 184 Seiten
...called for his fiddlers three. . . Take heart, my daughter, take heart, blood of my blood! (Declaiming) "The heavens such grace did lend her That she might admired be!" Step right up to the temple of fame!. . . (With feeling) Yes, and, dare I say it, drag your father... | |
 | Arthur Graham - 1997 - 244 Seiten
...jeden Reiz besiegt sie lang, den Erde kann gewähren: Krauze ihr und Saitenklang! [Shakespeare text] Who is Silvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her? swain— young man in love Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heavens such grace did lend her, That she... | |
 | Carl Van Vechten - 2000 - 336 Seiten
...Perfectly. Webb pawed about among his music again and eventually dragged out another song. Who is Sylvia? 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 132 Seiten
...[Music plays.] HOST Hark! hark! JULIA Is he among these? HOST Ay - but peace, let's hear 'em. Song. Who is Silvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her? 40 Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she... | |
 | Nigel Fabb - 2002 - 244 Seiten
...trimeter with extrametrical ity x/x/x/x to give a rhythm which can continue through the whole stanza. 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. William Shakespeare, from The Two Gentlemen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 Seiten
...[Music plays. HOST. Hark, hark! JULIA. Is he among these? HOST. Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em. Song. oo; else beshrew them both. JULIET. Amen! NURSE. What? JULIET. Well, thou hast comforted me m heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 Seiten
...Let's look first at two or three other examples. In The Two Gentlemen of Verona, we have the song, "Who is Silvia? What is she, / That all our swains commend her?" (IV.ii. 39-53). The song, which is sung to Silvia, has standard Petrarchan rhetoric — cruel fair,... | |
 | Sandra Djwa - 2002 - 510 Seiten
...Sylvia has become Arnold's 'sweetness and light' and merged with the 'Silvia' of Shakespeare's song: 'Who is Silvia? What is she, / That all our swains commend her?' Daniells was confusing literature with life. Birney, meantime, became convinced that his best friend... | |
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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. 
