O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
William Shakespeare
Art & Imagination
O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
William Shakespeare
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.