| 1928 - 486 pages
...humanity, however barren and forlorn : — " Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great T'would burst at this. Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live." Glances at Shakespearean... | |
| Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...Parolles, after he has been exposed in act 1v, is equally terse: If my heart were great 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. (lv, iii, 319-23) What he... | |
| Bernard Williams - History - 1993 - 276 pages
...denial, in the words of Shakespeare's Parolles: Yet I am thankful. If my heart were great 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. . . Quiet sword, cool blushes,... | |
| Marcus Noll - Dreams in literature - 1994 - 184 pages
...eigenem Entschluß seine Existenz auf angenehme Lebensumstände bezüglich des Schlafens und Essens: Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat and drink and sleep äs soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,... | |
| Sylvia Molloy - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 164 pages
...be and to speak through an imposture that he knows to be false, yet that imposture keeps him going: "Captain I'll be no more; / But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft / As captain shall: simply the thing I am / Shall make me live." From that tenuous substance,... | |
| Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 334 pages
...actor is given a short address to the audience. Yet I am thankful. If my heart were great Twouid burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live." At this moment the actor... | |
| Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...beyond words, disgraced, despised, but alive: Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. . . . Rust, sword; cool,... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...We shall speak of you there. Exit PAROLES Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft 335 As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,... | |
| Richard Stern - Fiction - 2001 - 205 pages
...captaincy. He begs for his life and, after it's granted, says: If my heart were great, 't would burst at this. Captain I'll be no more, but I will eat and drink and sleep as soft as captain shall. Simply the thing I am shall make me live. [8] That night, at home,... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...exposed as both a coward and a liar, he says, Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great, Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat, and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,... | |
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