 So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume...  The Heroines of History - Side 82av Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 423 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 sider
...passages side-lined where Melville seems to have been moved simply by the beauty of Shakespeare's poetry: The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony,...to gaze on Cleopatra too And made a gap in nature. (Antony and Cleopatra ILii.218-23) Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs,... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 262 sider
...acknowledged in the dedication of this book to my husband, Bernard Spolsky. Introduction Th'air. . .but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature. — Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra* The suicide of Cleopatra preempts Octavius Caesar's plan to... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 sider
...Cleopatra V.2.288) The lifeless vacuum ('a gap in nature') when air is absent: 'and Antony, Enthron'd i' the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the...gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.' (Antony W Cleopatra II.2.214) The capacity of water to cleanse: 'A little water clears us of this deed.'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 sider
...the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Whistling to th' air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature. Upon her landing, Antony sent to her, Invited her to supper. She replied, It should be better he became... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 sider
...people, too. Cleopatra can make humans move: The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthron'd i' the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the...to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature. (II.ii.213-18) Shakespeare alludes to the maxim that 'nature abhors a vacuum' to make one of his most... | |
 | Cris Mazza, Jeffrey DeShell, Elisabeth Sheffield - 1996 - 230 sider
...shredded comrades, stark z "and Antony, enthron 'di ' th ' market place, did sit alone, whistling to th ' air' which, but for vacancy, had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too. And made a gap in nature. . . " varying light on yellowfacedharborliningwallsharing houses with vineyards on the roofs — she... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them. 10156 Antony and Cleopatra ducation. 9724 No one can do me any good by loving...them - which isn't easy. 9725 There is hardly anyt 10157 Antony and Cleopatra Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 sider
...Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthroned i'th' market-place, did sit alone, Whisding to th'air, which but for vacancy Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too. And made a gap in namre. (Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2.198-225) Our modem conceptaon of genius makes creativity synonymous... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 sider
...frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i' th' marketplace, did sit alone, Whistling to th' air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra... | |
 | Allan Bloom - 2000 - 172 sider
...meant to remind us of nature. Nature is still the theme as Enobarbus continues: and Antony, Enthron'd i' the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the...to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature. (II. ii. 214-218) Nature itself goes to accompany Cleopatra, and the passage concludes with words of... | |
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