 Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these...  The Plays of William Shakspeare: Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ... - Page 186by William Shakespeare - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Kate Soper - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 310 pages
...sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world And mock...seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ought to astonish us greatly. For consider: a US administration is... | |
 | James Redmond - Drama - 1990 - 250 pages
...describing the shifting movement of the evening clouds, black vesper's pageants. The passage concludes: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. (1v, xiv, 9-11) Milan Kundera has appositely remarked of the drowned Ophelia that 'Water is the element... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - Science - 1990 - 386 pages
...conclude that, when Twin Shakespeare made Twin Antony say, pointing at the swiftly changing clouds, That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water, he could not refer to the same fluid as our Bard in the familiar homophonic lines; although both poets... | |
 | Robert Pack, Jay Parini - Authors - 1991 - 316 pages
...sometimes like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't that nod unto the world And mock...They are black Vesper's pageants. EROS: Ay, my lord. ANTONY: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct EROS:... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock...indistinct As water is in water. Eros It does, my lord. Ant. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...or lion, A towered citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't versity Press (IV, xiv) 10 The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us and present Our Alexandrian revels; Antony... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world And mock...indistinct, As water is in water, EROS. It does, my lord. ANT. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body. . . . We should feel with Antony the... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...sometime, like a bear, or lion, A towcr'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world. And mock...They are black vesper's pageants. Eros: Ay, my lord. Antony: That which is now a horse, even with a thought I he rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world And mock...seen these signs; They are black Vesper's pageants." 7 EROS Ay, my lord. ANTONY That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 262 pages
...from failure and the new possibilities that arise from gaps in the system. Minds, Modules, and Models That which is now a horse, even with a thought The...dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.... Here I am Antony, Yet cannot hold this visible shape. — Antony, in Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra's... | |
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